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We formulate and argue in favor of the following conjecture: There exists an intimate connection between Wigner's quantum mechanical phase space distribution function and classical Fresnel optics.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Crasser , H. Mack , W. P. Schleich

We investigate within the formalism of Symplectic Quantum Mechanics a two-dimensional non-relativistic strong interacting system that represents the bound heavy quark-antiquark state, where it was considered a linear potential in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-24 M. Abu-Shady , Renato R. Luz , G. X. A. Petronilo , R. G. G. Amorim , A. E. Santana

We show that the behaviour in phase space of the Wigner function associated to the electromagnetic modes carries the information of both, the entanglement properties between matter and field, and the regions in parameter space where quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 E. Nahmad-Achar , R. López-Peña , S. Cordero , O. Castaños

For the continuous Wigner function and for certain discrete Wigner functions, permuting the values of the Wigner function in accordance with a symplectic linear transformation is equivalent to performing a certain unitary transformation on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 William K. Wootters

The formalism of classical and quantum mechanics on phase space leads to symplectic and Heisenberg group representations, respectively. The Wigner functions give a representation of the quantum system using classical variables. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajay Patwardhan

The Wigner function, which provides a phase-space description of quantum systems, has various applications in quantum mechanics, quantum kinetic theory, quantum optics, radiation transport and others. The concept of Wigner function has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-05 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

We introduce a quantum phase space representation for the orientation state of extended quantum objects, using the Euler angles and their conjugate momenta as phase space coordinates. It exhibits the same properties as the standard Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Timo Fischer , Clemens Gneiting , Klaus Hornberger

Symplectic unitary representations for the Poincar\'{e} group are studied. The formalism is based on the noncommutative structure of the star-product, and using group theory approach as a guide, a consistent physical theory in phase space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 R. G. G. Amorim , S. C. Ulhoa , Edilberto O. Silva

Exploring the concept of the extended Galilei group $\mathcal{G}$, a representation for the symplectic quantum mechanics in the manifold of $\mathcal{G}$, written in the light-cone of a five-dimensional De Sitter space-time, is derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-03 Gustavo Xavier Antunes Petronilo , Sergio Costa Ulhoa , Ademir Eugenio Santana

We show that the Witten covariant phase space for p-branes with thickness in an arbitrary background is endowed of a symplectic potential, which although is not important to the dynamics of the system, plays a relevant role on the phase…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alberto Escalante

We examine the visualization of quantum mechanics in phase space by means of the Wigner function and the Wigner function flow as a complementary approach to illustrating quantum mechanics in configuration space by wave functions. The Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-17 Heiko Bauke , Noya Ruth Itzhak

The phase-space representation for a relativistic linear oscillator in a homogeneous external field expressed through the finite-difference equation is constructed. Explicit expressions of the relativistic oscillator Wigner…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 S. M. Nagiyev , G. H. Guliyeva , E. I. Jafarov

We study the covariance property of quadratic time-frequency distributions with respect to the action of the extended symplectic group. We show how covariance is related, and in fact in competition, with the possibility of damping the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Elena Cordero , Maurice de Gosson , Monika Doerfler , Fabio Nicola

We study the Wigner Function in non-commutative quantum mechanics. By solving the time independent Schr\"{o}dinger equation both on a non-commutative (NC) space and a non-commutative phase space, we obtain the Wigner Function for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-13 Jianhua Wang , Kang Li , Sayipjamal Dulat

We investigate the quantum behavior of a quark-antiquark bound system under the influence of a magnetic field within the symplectic formulation of quantum mechanics. Employing a perturbative approach, we obtain the ground and first excited…

In this work we study representations of the Poincare group defined over symplectic manifolds, deriving the Klein-Gordon and the Dirac equation in phase space. The formalism is associated with relativistic Wigner functions; the Noether…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. G. G. Amorim , M. C. B. Fernandes , F. C. Khanna , A. E. Santana , J. D. M. Vianna

We consider the Weyl quantization on a flat non-standard symplectic vector space. We focus mainly on the properties of the Wigner functions defined therein. In particular we show that the sets of Wigner functions on distinct symplectic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Nuno Costa Dias , João Nuno Prata

The formalism based on the equal-time Wigner function of the two-point correlation function for a quantized Klein--Gordon field is presented. The notion of the gauge-invariant Wigner transform is introduced and equations for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. Best , P. Gornicki , W. Greiner

New time dependent Wigner functions for the quantum harmonic oscillator have been obtained in this work. The Moyal equation for the harmonic oscillator has been presented as the wave equation of a 2D membrane in the phase plane. The values…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 E. E. Perepelkin , B. I. Sadovnikov , N. G. Inozemtseva , E. V. Burlakov

In the framework of the spatial coherence wavelets, different features of the first-order spatial coherence (Young's interference) are analysed by calculating the corresponding marginal power spectrum, a close related quantity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-20 Román Castañeda , Gustavo Cañas-Cardona , Herbert Vinck-Posada
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