From free-evolution to tomographic representation
Abstract
We use the free evolution propagator to determine the quantum probability representation (i.e., the general expression of the tomogram) of any one-dimensional system described by a density state. The evolution operator for the considered quantum system is additionally used to establish the corresponding time dependent tomogram. Applications are given for a Gaussian wave packet, the quantum shutter related with the phenomenon of diffraction in time, the double quantum shutter, and a finite potential. A generalisation to describe particle systems is also presented and, in particular, we find the tomogram associated to the 2 particle case occupying in general non-orthogonal states. In the latter case, for a bipartite quantum system, the entanglement properties are established by considering quantum information concepts such as the linear entropy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2508.08456,
title = {From free-evolution to tomographic representation},
author = {Sergio Cordero and Ramón López-Peña and Eduardo Nahmad-Achar and Octavio Castaños and Julio Aberto López-Saldívar and Vladimir I. Man'ko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.08456},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
19 pages, 5 figures