Phase-space descriptions of operators and the Wigner distribution in quantum mechanics I. A Dirac inspired view
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Drawing inspiration from Dirac's work on functions of non commuting observables, we develop a fresh approach to phase space descriptions of operators and the Wigner distribution in quantum mechanics. The construction presented here is marked by its economy, naturalness and more importantly, by its potential for extensions and generalisations to situations where the underlying configuration space is non Cartesian.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0507053,
title = {Phase-space descriptions of operators and the Wigner distribution in quantum mechanics I. A Dirac inspired view},
author = {S. Chaturvedi and E. Ercolessi and G. Marmo and G. Morandi and N. Mukunda and R. Simon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0507053},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
12 pages, typos corrected, submitted to Jour. Phys. A