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Beyond the Fokker-Planck equation: Stochastic Simulation of Complete Wigner representation for the Optical Parametric Oscillator

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP Computational Physics

Abstract

We demonstrate a method which allows the stochastic modelling of quantum systems for which the generalised Fokker-Planck equation in the phase space contains derivatives of higher than second order. This generalises quantum stochastics far beyond the quantum-optical paradigm of three and four-wave mixing problems to which these techniques have so far only been applicable. To verify our method, we model a full Wigner representation for the optical parametric oscillator, a system where the correct results are well known and can be obtained by other methods.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0108128,
  title  = {Beyond the Fokker-Planck equation: Stochastic Simulation of Complete Wigner representation for the Optical Parametric Oscillator},
  author = {L. I. Plimak and M. K. Olsen and M. Fleischhauer and M. J. Collett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0108128},
  year   = {2009}
}

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RevTeX, 1 EPS figure, to appear in Europhysics Letters