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Stationary quantum Markov process for the Wigner function

Quantum Physics 2007-11-07 v4

Abstract

As a stochastic model for quantum mechanics we present a stationary quantum Markov process for the time evolution of the Wigner function on a lattice phase space Z_N x Z_N with N odd. By introducing a phase factor extension to the phase space, each particle can be treated independently. This is an improvement on earlier methods that require the whole distribution function to determine the evolution of a constituent particle. The process has branching and vanishing points, though a finite time interval can be maintained between the branchings. The procedure to perform a simulation using the process is presented.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0602227,
  title  = {Stationary quantum Markov process for the Wigner function},
  author = {T. Hashimoto and M. Horibe and A. Hayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0602227},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

12 pages, no figures; replaced with version accepted for publication in J. Phys. A, title changed, an example added