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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

A quantum state can be written in phase space, but the resulting object is not generally the probability density of a positive stochastic process on ordinary phase space. We spell this out for Wigner dynamics. If a positive phase-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Surachate Limkumnerd , Panat Phanthaphanitkul

We study the distribution (w.r.t. the vacuum state) of family of partial sums Sm of position operators on weakly monotone Fock space. We show that any single operator has the Wigner law, and an arbitrary family of them (with the index set…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Vitonofrio Crismale , Maria Elena Griseta , janusz Wysoczanski

In 1945, Dirac attempted to develop a "formal probability" distribution to describe quantum operators in terms of two non-commuting variables, such as position x and momentum p [Rev. Mod. Phys. 17, 195 (1945)]. The resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-06 Jeff S. Lundeen , Charles Bamber

We discuss the Heisenberg-Wigner phase-space formalism in quantum electrodynamics as well as scalar quantum electrodynamics with respect to transverse fields. In regard to the special characteristics of such field types we derive modified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-13 Christian Kohlfürst

Quantum Mechanics and Signal Processing in the line R, are strictly related to Fourier Transform and Weyl-Heisenberg algebra. We discuss here the addition of a new discrete variable that measures the degree of the Hermite functions and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Enrico Celeghini , Mariano A. del Olmo

In this work, we consider the phase-space picture of quantum mechanics. We then introduce non-negative Wigner-like (operational) distributions \widetilde{\mathcal W}_{rho;alpha}(x,p) corresponding to the density operator \hat{rho} and being…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-21 Ilki Kim

Phase space reflection operators lie at the core of the Wigner-Weyl representation of density operators and observables. The role of the corresponding classical reflections is known in the construction of semiclassical approximations to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

In this paper, we correct a mistake we made in [Phys. Rev. Lett. $\textbf{122}$, 190402 (2019)] and [Phys. Rev. A $\textbf{103}$, 012213 (2021)] regarding the Wigner function of the so-called smoothed Weak-Valued state (SWV state). Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Kiarn T. Laverick , Areeya Chantasri , Howard M. Wiseman

For one-mode light described by the Wigner function of generic Gaussian form the photon distribution function is obtained explicitly and expressed in terms of Hermite polynomials of two variables.The mean values and dispersions of photon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-17 V. V. Dodonov , O. V. Man'ko , V. I. Man'ko

Starting from Feynman's Lagrangian description of quantum mechanics, we propose a method to construct explicitly the propagator for the Wigner distribution function of a single system. For general quadratic Lagrangians, only the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Dries Sels , Fons Brosens , Wim Magnus

The distribution of the non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function, according to the Riemann hypothesis, is tantalisingly similar to the zeroes of the partition functions (Fisher and Yang-Lee zeroes) of statistical mechanical models…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-01 Parikshit Dutta , Debashis Ghoshal

We estimate the quantum state of a light beam from results of quantum homodyne measurements performed on identically prepared pulses. The state is represented through the Wigner function, a ``quasi-probability density'' on $\mathbb{R}^{2}$…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-23 Madalin Guta , Luis Artiles

Classical model of light in helicity formalism is presented. Then quantum point of view at photons -- construction and interpretation of photon wave function is proposed. Quantum mechanics of photon is investigated. The Bia\l ynicki --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Maciej Przanowski , Jaromir Tosiek , Francisco J. Turrubiates

We calculate the Wigner (quasi)probability distribution function of the quantum optical elliptical vortex (QEV), generated by coupling squeezed vacuum states of two modes. The coupling between the two modes is performed by using beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-04 Abir Bandyopadhyay , Shashi Prabhakar , R. P. Singh

We study the Hermite operator $H=-\Delta+|x|^2$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and its fractional powers $H^\beta$, $\beta>0$ in phase space. Namely, we represent functions $f$ via the so-called short-time Fourier, alias Fourier-Wigner or Bargmann…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Divyang G. Bhimani , Ramesh Manna , Fabio Nicola , Sundaram Thangavelu , S. Ivan Trapasso

We present a reduced density operator for electronically open molecules by explicitly averaging over the environmental degrees of freedom of the composite Hamiltonian. Specifically, we include the particle-number non-conserving…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Jacob Pedersen , Bendik Støa Sannes , Ida-Marie Høyvik

We apply the Wigner function formalism from quantum optics via two approaches, Wootters' discrete Wigner function and the generalized Wigner function, to detect quantum phase transitions in critical spin-$\tfrac{1}{2}$ systems. We develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Zakaria Mzaouali , Steve Campbell , Morad El Baz

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

Optimized, necessary and sufficient conditions for the identification of the Schmidt number will be derived in terms of general Hermitian operators. These conditions apply to arbitrary mixed quantum states. The optimization procedure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 J. Sperling , W. Vogel