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This paper contains a brief sketch of some methods that can be used to obtain the Wigner function for a number of systems. We give an overview of the technique as it is applied to some simple differential systems related to diffusion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 P. G. Morrison

We prove a formula expressing the gradient of the phase function of a function $f: \mathbb R^d \mapsto \mathbb C$ as a normalized first frequency moment of the Wigner distribution for fixed time. The formula holds when $f$ is the Fourier…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-07-07 Paolo Boggiatto , Alessandro Oliaro , Patrik Wahlberg

The quantum analog of the joint probability distributions describing a classical stochastic process is introduced. A prescription is given for constructing the quantum distribution associated with a sequence of measurements. For the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. W. Ford , R. F. O'Connell

This paper aims to explore the inherent connection among Heisenberg groups, quantum Fourier transform and (quasiprobability) distribution functions. Distribution functions for continuous and finite quantum systems are examined first as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Manas K. Patra , Samuel L. Braunstein

We study a generalization of the Wigner function to arbitrary tuples of hermitian operators, which is a distribution uniquely characterized by the property that the marginals for all linear combinations of the given operators agree with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 René Schwonnek , Reinhard F. Werner

In the present article the author extends the Fourier transform to a more general class of functions; First to power-law functions with integer and half-integer exponents then to the widely used quantum statistics function (Fermi-Dirac and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Cyril Belardinelli

In this article new bounds on weighted p-norms of ambiguity functions and Wigner functions are derived. Such norms occur frequently in several areas of physics and engineering. In pulse optimization for Weyl--Heisenberg signaling in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Peter Jung

In this paper we provide a systematic exposition of basic properties of integrated distribution and quantile functions. We define these transforms in such a way that they characterize any probability distribution on the real line and are…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-01-04 Alexander A. Gushchin , Dmitriy A. Borzykh

Following a general method proposed earlier, we construct here Wigner functions defined on coadjoint orbits of a class of semidirect product groups. The groups in question are such that their unitary duals consist purely of representations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. E. Krasowska , S. Twareque Ali

Using the Wigner-Vlasov formalism, an exact 3D solution of the Schr\"odinger equation for a scalar particle in an electromagnetic field is constructed. Electric and magnetic fields are non-uniform. According to the exact expression for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 E. E. Perepelkin , B. I. Sadovnikov , N. G. Inozemtseva , P. V. Afonin

We present a new quasi-probability distribution function for ensembles of spin-half particles or qubits that has many properties in common with Wigner's original function for systems of continuous variables. We show that this function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-04 Derek Harland , M. J. Everitt , Kae Nemoto , T. Tilma , T. P. Spiller

The quadratic nature of the Wigner distribution causes the appearance of unwanted interferences. This is the reason why engineers, mathematicians and physicists look for related time-frequency distributions, many of them are members of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Elena Cordero , Maurice de Gosson , Monika Dörfler , Fabio Nicola

Spaces $S_{\omega}, S_{\{\omega\}}, S_{(\omega)}$ of ultradecreasing ultradifferentiable (or for short, ultra-S) functions, depending on a weight $e^{\omega(x)}$, are introduced in the context of quantum statistics. The corresponding…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-26 Jean-Marie Aubry

The effects of interpreting classical phase space distributions as Wigner functions, which is common in models of multiparticle production, are discussed. The temperature for the classical description is always higher than that for its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-22 K. Zalewski

In this paper analysis of the concept of {\it associated homogeneous distributions} (generalized functions) is given, and some problems related to these distributions are solved. It is proved that (in the one-dimensional case) there exist…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 V. M. Shelkovich

An extended Wigner function formalism is introduced for describing the quantum dynamics of particles with internal degrees of freedom in the presence of spatially inhomogeneous fields. The approach is used for quantitative simulations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 Marcel Utz , Malcolm H Levitt , Nathan Cooper , Hendrik Ulbricht

The class of Riemann zeta distribution is one of the classical classes of probability distributions on R. Multidimensional Shintani zeta function is introduced and its definable probability distributions on R^d are studied. This class…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-05 Takahiro Aoyama , Takashi Nakamura

We present a way of introducing joint distibution function and its marginal distribution functions for non-compatible observables. Each such marginal distribution function has the property of commutativity. Models based on this approach can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Oľga Nánásiová , Andrei Yu. Khrennikov

We demonstrate that the Wigner function of a pure quantum state is a wave function in a specially tuned Dirac bra-ket formalism and argue that the Wigner function is in fact a probability amplitude for the quantum particle to be at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Denys I. Bondar , Renan Cabrera , Dmitry V. Zhdanov , Herschel A. Rabitz

A quantum phase space with Wannier basis is constructed: (i) classical phase space is divided into Planck cells; (ii) a complete set of Wannier functions are constructed with the combination of Kohn's method and L\"owdin method such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Yuan Fang , Fan Wu , Biao Wu