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The target space $M_{p,q}$ of $(p,q)$ minimal strings is embedded into the phase space of an associated integrable classical mechanical model. This map is derived from the matrix model representation of minimal strings. Quantum effects on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Cesar Gomez , Sergio Montanez , Pedro Resco

The classical limit of the Wigner-Weyl representation is used to approximate products of bound-continuum matrix elements that are fundamental to many coherent control computations. The range of utility of the method is quantified through an…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. R. McQuarrie , Dmitri G. Abrashkevich , Paul Brumer

We study the tomography of propagators for spin systems in the context of finite-dimensional Wigner representations, which completely characterize and visualize operators using shapes assembled from linear combinations of spherical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-12 David Leiner , Steffen J. Glaser

A Lie algebraic method for propagation of the Wigner quasi-distribution function under quadratic Hamiltonian was presented by Zoubi and Ben-Aryeh. We show that the same method can be used in order to propagate a rather general class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-17 Dimitry Ginzburg , Ady Mann

Wigner phase space quasi-probability distribution function is a Fourier transform related to a given quantum mechanical wave function. It is shown that for the wave functions of type $\psi (q)=e^{-aq^2}\phi (q)$, the Wigner function can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-01-02 A. Tegmen

The main result of this article gives scaling asymptotics of the Wigner distributions $W_{\varphi_N^{\gamma},\varphi_N^{\gamma}}$ of isotropic harmonic oscillator orbital coherent states $\varphi_N^{\gamma}$ concentrating along Hamiltonian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Nicholas Lohr

We perform a Wigner analysis of Fourier integral operators (FIOs), whose main examples are Schr\"odinger propagators arising from quadratic Hamiltonians with bounded perturbations. The perturbation is given by a pseudodifferential operator…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Elena Cordero , Gianluca Giacchi , Luigi Rodino

The quantum phase-space dynamics driven by hyperbolic P\"oschl-Teller (PT) potentials is investigated in the context of the Weyl-Wigner quantum mechanics. The obtained Wigner functions for quantum superpositions of ground and first-excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Alex E. Bernardini , Roldao Da Rocha

The phase space representation for a q-deformed model of the quantum harmonic oscillator is constructed. We have found explicit expressions for both the Wigner and Husimi distribution functions for the stationary states of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Jafarov , S. Lievens , S. M. Nagiyev , J. Van der Jeugt

In this study, we compare the Wigner function $W$, its modulus, and the Husimi distribution $H$ in a one-dimensional quantum system exhibiting a transition from a single-well to a double-well configuration, using the quasi-exactly solvable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Angelina N. Mendoza Tavera , Adrian M. Escobar Ruiz , Robin P. Sagar

In this paper we give an overview over some aspects of the modern mathematical theory of Ruelle resonances for chaotic, i.e. uniformly hyperbolic, dynamical systems and their implications in physics. First we recall recent developments in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Sonja Barkhofen , Philipp Schütte , Tobias Weich

Trajectories are a central concept in our understanding of classical phenomena and also in rationalizing quantum mechanical effects. In this work we provide a way to determine semiclassical paths, approximations to quantum averages in phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Rafael Liberalquino , Fernando Parisio

We propose a conjugate application of the Bargmann representation of quantum mechanics. Applying the Maslov method to the semiclassical connection formula between the two representations, we derive a uniform semiclassical approximation for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. D. Ribeiro , M. Novaes , M. A. M. de Aguiar

We theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate a nonclassicality test of single-mode field in phase space, which has an analogy with the nonlocality test proposed by Banaszek and Wodkiewicz [Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2009 (1999)]. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jiyong Park , Junhua Zhang , Jaehak Lee , Se-Wan Ji , Mark Um , Dingshun Lv , Kihwan Kim , Hyunchul Nha

Phase-space representations based on coherent states (P, Q, Wigner) have been successful in the creation of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) for the efficient stochastic simulation of high dimensional quantum systems. However many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. R. Hush , A. R. R. Carvalho , J. J. Hope

Wigner functions play a central role in the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics. Although closely related to classical Liouville densities, Wigner functions are not positive definite and may take negative values on subregions of…

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

The paper scrutinizes both the similarities and the differences between the classical optics and quantum mechanical theories in phase space, especially between the Wigner distribution functions defined in the respective phase spaces.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Daniela Dragoman

Cahill-Glauber C(s)-correspondence is employed to construct Quasi-Probability Distribution Functions (QPDFs) for optical-polarization in phase space following equivalent description of polarization in Classical Optics. The proposed scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-05 Ravi S. Singh , Sunil P. Singh , Gyaneshwar K. Gupta

The Wigner phase-space distribution function provides the basis for Moyal's deformation quantization alternative to the more conventional Hilbert space and path integral quantizations. General features of time-independent Wigner functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-02 Thomas Curtright , David Fairlie , Cosmas Zachos

We investigate quasi-hermitian quantum mechanics in phase space using standard deformation quantization methods: Groenewold star products and Wigner transforms. We focus on imaginary Liouville theory as a representative example where exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Curtright , Andrzej Veitia