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We study a class of phase-space distribution functions that is generated from a Gaussian convolution of the Wigner distribution function. This class of functions represents the joint count probability in simultaneous measurements of…

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Quantum mechanics can be formulated in terms of phase-space functions, according to Wigner's approach. A generalization of this approach consists in replacing the density operators of the standard formulation with suitable functions, the…

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Temporal coherence-persistent alignment across time-can arise between agents with fundamentally distinct dynamics, a behavior that classical diffusion models (e.g., Brownian motion, fractional Brownian motion, generalized Langevin equation)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-19 Aranyak Sarkar

We consider pseudodifferential operators on functions on $\R^{n+1}$ which commute with the Euler operator, and can thus be restricted to spaces of functions homogeneous of some given degree. Their symbols can be regarded as functions on a…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Pevzner , André Unterberger

Interrelation of the Coleman's representabilty theory for 1-density operators and abstract algebraic form of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorem is studied in detail. Convenient realization of the Hohenberg-Kohn set of classes of 1-electron…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. I. Panin

Though Gaussian graphical models have been widely used in many scientific fields, relatively limited progress has been made to link graph structures to external covariates. We propose a Gaussian graphical regression model, which regresses…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-01 Jingfei Zhang , Yi Li

A parameterization of the density operator, a coherence vector representation, which uses a basis of orthogonal, traceless, Hermitian matrices is discussed. Using this parameterization we find the region of permissible vectors which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark S. Byrd , Navin Khaneja

Measurements can be considered as a genuine example of processes that crush quantum coherence. In the case of an observable with degeneracy, the formulations of L\"{u}ders and von Neumann are known. These pictures postulate the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 Alexey E. Rastegin

We present a new technique, based on semivariogram methodology, for obtaining point estimates for use in prior modeling for solving Bayesian inverse problems. This method requires a connection between Gaussian processes with covariance…

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We investigate the loss of nonclassicality and non-Gaussianity of a single-mode state of the radiation field in contact with a thermal reservoir. The damped density matrix for a Fock-diagonal input is written using the Weyl expansion of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-14 Paulina Marian , Iulia Ghiu , Tudor A. Marian

The integral of the Wigner function of a quantum mechanical system over a region or its boundary in the classical phase plane, is called a quasiprobability integral. Unlike a true probability integral, its value may lie outside the interval…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. J. Bracken , D. Ellinas , J. G. Wood

This paper considers a class of open quantum systems with an algebraic structure of dynamic variables, including the Pauli matrices for finite-level systems as a particular case. The Hamiltonian and the operators of coupling of the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-14 Igor G. Vladimirov , Ian R. Petersen

We prove a theorem, using the density functional approach and relying on a classical result by Lieb and Simon on Thomas-Fermi model, showing that in the thermodynamic limit bulk matter is at most semiclassical and coherence preserving. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Frasca

We introduce new finite-dimensional spaces specifically designed to approximate the solutions to high-frequency Helmholtz problems with smooth variable coefficients in dimension $d$. These discretization spaces are spanned by Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 T. Chaumont-Frelet , V. Dolean , M. Ingremeau

I review the decoherent (or consistent) histories approach to quantum mechanics, due to Griffiths, to Gell-Mann and Hartle, and to Omnes. This is an approach to standard quantum theory specifically designed to apply to genuinely closed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 J. J. Halliwell

The mixed density operator for coarsegrained eigenlevels of a static Hamiltonian is represented in phase space by the spectral Wigner function, which has its peak on the corresponding classical energy shell. The action of trajectory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

We show that the dynamical Wigner functions for noninteracting fermions and bosons can have complex singularity structures with a number of new solutions accompanying the usual mass-shell dispersion relations. These new shell solutions are…

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We calculate the reduced density matrix for the inflaton field in a model of chaotic inflation by tracing out degrees of freedom corresponding to various bosonic fields. We find a qualitatively new contribution to the density matrix given…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Barvinsky , A. Kamenshchik , C. Kiefer , I. Mishakov

In this work, we provide the first strong convergence result of numerical approximation of a general second order semilinear stochastic fractional order evolution equation involving a Caputo derivative in time of order $\alpha\in(\frac 34,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-08 Aurelien Junior Noupelah , Antoine Tambue

It is shown that the number-phase Wigner function defines uniquely the respective density operator. Relations between the Glauber-Sudarshan distribution $\mathcal{P}(\alpha)$ and the number-phase Wigner function is found. This result is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Maciej Przanowski , Przemyslaw Brzykcy