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The recently developed Wigner functional theory is used to formulate an evolution equation for arbitrary multi-photon states, propagating through a turbulent atmosphere under arbitrary conditions. The resulting evolution equation, which is…

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We study biexcitonic states in two tunnel-coupled semiconductor quantum dots and show that such systems provide the possibility to produce polarization- entangled photons or spin-entangled electrons that are spatially separated at…

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Squeezed number states for a single mode Hamiltonian are investigated from two complementary points of view. Firstly the more relevant features of their photon distribution are discussed using the WKB wave functions. In particular the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. F. Mundarain , J. Stephany

We study the Wigner function for the inflationary tensor perturbation defined in the real phase space. We compute explicitly the Wigner function including the contributions from the cubic self-interaction Hamiltonian of tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Min-Seok Seo

We consider classical solutions to the kinetic Fokker-Planck equation on a bounded domain $\mathcal O \subset~\mathbb{R}^d$ in position, and we obtain a probabilistic representation of the solutions using the Langevin diffusion process with…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Tony Lelièvre , Mouad Ramil , Julien Reygner

We emphasize the fact the evolution of quantum states in the inverted oscillator (IO) is reduced to classical equations of motion, stressing that the corresponding tunnelling and reflexion coefficients addressed in the literature are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Carla M. Q. Flores

In the framework of statistical optics, a Wigner function represents partially coherent radiation. A Gaussian Wigner function, which is an equivalent representation of the more commonly used Gaussian Schell-model cross-spectral density, may…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Ilya V. Pogorelov , Boaz Nash , Dan T. Abell , Paul Moeller , Nicholas Goldring

We find a closed-form for the distribution function (defined in terms of a Wigner operator) for hot coloured particles in a background gluon field, in the hard thermal loop approximation. We verify that the current is the same as that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Josif frenkel , John C Taylor

Two positive mass, spin $\frac 12$ particles created in an entangled state are studied in the presence of a constant magnetic field inducing distinct precessions, depending on the respective momenta, of the two spins. The charge and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Chakrabarti

Theoretical investigations into the deflection angle caused by microlenses offer a direct path to uncovering principles of the cosmological microlensing effect. This work specifically concentrates on the the probability density function…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-30 Wenwen Zheng , Hou-Zun Chen , Xuechun Chen , Guoliang Li

The theory of quantum propagator and time--dependent integrals of motion in quantum optics is reviewed as well as the properties of Wigner function, Q--function, and coherent state representation. Propagators and wave functions of a free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 V. I. Man'ko

This paper concerns the reconstruction of a diffusion coefficient in an elliptic equation from knowledge of several power densities. The power density is the product of the diffusion coefficient with the square of the modulus of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Guillaume Bal , Eric Bonnetier , Francois Monard , Faouzi Triki

In this paper, a gradient flow model is proposed for conducting ground state calculations in Wigner formalism of many-body system in the framework of density functional theory. More specifically, an energy functional for the ground state in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Guanghui Hu , Ruo Li , Hongfei Zhan

An inversion method is formulated for extracting entanglement-related information on two-particle interactions in a one-dimensional system from measurable one-particle position- and momentum-distribution functions. The method is based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 I. Nagy , M. L. Glasser

We experimentally demonstrate that the entanglement between Gaussian entangled states can be increased by non-Gaussian operations. Coherent subtraction of single photons from Gaussian quadrature-entangled light pulses, created by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexei Ourjoumtsev , Aurelien Dantan , Rosa Tualle-Brouri , Philippe Grangier

This article contains a review of an alternative theory of squeezing, based entirely on the wave function description of the squeezed states. Quantum field theoretic approach is used to describe the squeezing of the electromagnetic field in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula

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

We study the transport properties of an ultracold gas of Bose-Einstein condensate that is coupled from a magnetic trap into a one-dimensional waveguide. Our theoretical approach to tackle this problem is based on the truncated Wigner method…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-23 Julien Dujardin , Arturo Argüelles , Peter Schlagheck

A practical scheme for entanglement creation between distant atoms located inside a single-mode optical cavity is discussed. We show that the degree of entanglement and the time it takes for the entanglement to reach its optimum value is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Natali , Z. Ficek

We investigate the performance of entangled coherent state for quantum enhanced phase estimation. An exact analytical expression of quantum Fisher information is derived to show the role of photon losses on the ultimate phase sensitivity.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 Y. M. Zhang , X. W. Li , W. Yang , G. R. Jin