For many problems a solution in the Heisenberg picture is straightforward, but the Schrodinger picture solution is difficult, although presumably it is possible. A good example is the driven harmonic oscillator. The equations of motion are easy to solve when the driving force is periodic. The Hamiltonian can be reduced to time-independent form and the evolution operator is easy to write down as a single exponential. To work out the transition probability from one number state to another, it is necessary to decompose the exponential. As well as the Baker-Hausdorff formula, other operator techniques are used together with the coherent-state projection operator, to solve the problem.
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