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We formulate a variant of Fourier restriction for operators in Schatten classes, where the Fourier-Wigner transform of a bounded operator replaces the Fourier transform of a function. The Fourier-Wigner transform is closely related to the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Franz Luef , Helge Jørgen Samuelsen

A number of physically intuitive results for the calculation of multi-time correlations in phase-space representations of quantum mechanics are obtained. They relate time-dependent stochastic samples to multi-time observables, and rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Piotr Deuar

It is common knowledge that the Wigner function of a quantum state may admit negative values, so that it cannot be viewed as a genuine probability density. Here, we examine the difficulty in finding an entropy-like functional in phase space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Nicolas J. Cerf , Anaelle Hertz , Zacharie Van Herstraeten

Novel quantization properties related to the state vectors and the energy spectrum of a two-dimensional system of free particles are obtained in the framework of noncommutative (NC) quantum mechanics (QM) supported by the Weyl-Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 Catarina Bastos , Alex E. Bernardini , Jonas F. G. Santos

We introduce a family of criteria to detect quantum non-Gaussian states of a harmonic oscillator, that is, quantum states that can not be expressed as a convex mixture of Gaussian states. In particular we prove that, for convex mixtures of…

Non-classical states are of practical interest in quantum computing and quantum metrology. These states can be detected through their Wigner function negativity in some regions. In this paper, we calculate the ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ramón López-Peña , Sergio Cordero , Eduardo Nahmad-Achar , Octavio Castaños

We study the Wigner kernel and the Gabor matrix associated with the propagators of a broad class of linear evolution equations, including the complex heat, wave, and Hermite equations. Within the framework of time-frequency analysis, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Elena Cordero , Gianluca Giacchi , Luigi Rodino

Complex numbers appear in the Hilbert space formulation of quantum mechanics, but not in the formulation in phase space. Quantum symmetries are described by complex, unitary or antiunitary operators defining ray representations in Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. J. Bracken

We analyze the quantum walk on a cycle using discrete Wigner functions as a way to represent the states and the evolution of the walker. The method provides some insight on the nature of the interference effects that make quantum and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. C. Lopez , J. P. Paz

Solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation are mapped to other solutions for a (possibly) different potential by so-called form-preserving transformations. These time-dependent transformations of the space and time coordinates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Mustafa Amin , Mason Daub , Mark A. Walton

The quantum-mechanical state vector is not directly observable even though it is the fundamental variable that appears in Schrodinger's equation. In conventional time-dependent perturbation theory, the state vector must be calculated before…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. D. Franson , Michelle M. Donegan

A proof is given for the Fourier transform for functions in a quantum mechanical Hilbert space on a non-compact manifold in general relativity. In the (configuration space) Newton-Wigner representation we discuss the spectral decomposition…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 L. P. Horwitz

The Wigner eigenfunctions of a free quantum particle propagating on a plane are derived. Two possibilities are analysed. Firstly, the particle of given energy and angular momentum is discussed. In that case, a special choice of coordinates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Hubert Jóźwiak , Jaromir Tosiek

The review of star-product formalism providing the possibility to describe quantum states and quantum observables by means of the functions called symbols of operators which are obtained by means of bijective maps of the operators acting in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-20 S. N. Belolipetskiy , V. N. Chernega , O. V. Man'ko , V. I. Man'ko

The short time dynamics of a quantum Brownian particle in a harmonic potential is studied in the phase space. An exact non-Markovian analytic approach to calculate the time evolution of the Wigner function is presented. The dynamics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Sabrina Maniscalco

An adapted representation of quantum mechanics sheds new light on the relationship between quantum states and classical states. In this approach the space of quantum states splits into a product of the state space of classical mechanics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-14 Christoph Nölle

In this work, we study the Wigner phase-space representation of qubit states encoded in continuous variables (CV) by using the Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) mapping. We explore a possible connection between resources for universal quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 L. García-Álvarez , A. Ferraro , G. Ferrini

There are no phase-space trajectories for anharmonic quantum systems, but Wigner's phase-space representation of quantum mechanics features Wigner current~$\bf J$. This current reveals fine details of quantum dynamics -- finer than is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-11 Dimitris Kakofengitis , Ole Steuernagel

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 study the weak values of a quantum observable from the point of view of the Wigner formalism. The main actor is here the cross-Wigner transform of two functions, which is in disguise the cross-ambiguity function familiar from radar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Maurice A. de Gosson , Serge M. de Gosson