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The master equation of quantum optical density operator is transformed to the equation of characteristic function. The parametric amplification and amplitude damping as well as the phase damping are considered. The solution for the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-yu Chen

We demonstrate that a tensor product structure and optical analogy of quantum entanglement can be obtained by introducing pseudorandom phase sequences into classical fields with two orthogonal modes. Using the classical analogy, we discuss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 Jian Fu , Xutai Ma , Wenjiang Li , Shuo Sun

A rigorous microscopic theory for the description of quantum-transport phenomena in systems with open boundaries is proposed. We shall show that the application of the conventional Wigner-function formalism to this problem leads to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Remo Proietti Zaccaria , Fausto Rossi

Phase space quasi-probability functions provide powerful representations of quantum states and operators, as well as criteria for assessing quantum computational resources. In discrete, odd-dimensional systems (qudits), protocols involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Eloi Descamps , Astghik Saharyan , Arne Keller , Pérola Milman

The Wigner function, which provides a phase-space description of quantum systems, has various applications in quantum mechanics, quantum kinetic theory, quantum optics, radiation transport and others. The concept of Wigner function has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-05 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

We show with explicit formulas that one can completely identify an unknown quantum process with only one weakly entangled state; and identify a quantum optical Gaussian process with either one two-mode squeezed state or a few different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Xiang-Bin Wang , J. -Z. Hu , Z. -W. Yu , Franco Nori

It is shown that space-time may be not only in a state which is described by Riemann geometry but also in states which are described by Finsler geometry. Transitions between various metric states of space-time have the meaning of phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Yu. Bogoslovsky , H. F. Goenner

One of the most central and controversial element of quantum mechanics is the use of non zero vectors of a Hilbert space (or, more generally, of one dimension subspaces) for representing the state of a quantum system. In particular, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Olivier Brunet

Nonclassical states of light and their correlations lie at the heart of quantum optics, serving as fundamental resources that underpin both the exploration of quantum phenomena and the realisation of quantum information protocols. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Jhoan Eusse , Esteban Vasquez , Tom Rivlin , Elizabeth Agudelo

We investigate non-Gaussian states of light as ancillary inputs for generating nonlinear transformations required for quantum computing with continuous variables. We consider a recent proposal for preparing a cubic phase state, find the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shohini Ghose , Barry C. Sanders

`Hypergeometric states', which are a one-parameter generalization of binomial states of the single-mode quantized radiation field, are introduced and their nonclassical properties are investigated. Their limits to the binomial states and to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hong-Chen Fu , Ryu Sasaki

Quantum particles in a potential are described by classical statistical probabilities. We formulate a basic time evolution law for the probability distribution of classical position and momentum such that all known quantum phenomena follow,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 C. Wetterich

We introduce a generalized phase-space representation of qubit systems called the BEADS representation which makes it possible to visualize arbitrary quantum states in an intuitive and an easy to grasp way. Our representation is exact,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Dennis Huber , Steffen J. Glaser

Any pure quantum state can be equivalently represented by means of its wave function psi(q) or of the Fermi function g_F(q,p), with q and p coordinates and conjugate momenta of the system under investigation.We show that a Gaussian wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 Giuliano Benenti , Giuliano Strini

There exist many attempts to define a Wigner function for qudits, each of them coming with its advantages and limitations. The existing finite versions have simple definitions, but they are artificial in their construction and do not allow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Nicolae Cotfas

Different constructions for Hilbert state space for constrained systems are investigated. Properties of Gaussian states analogous to quantum mechanical Gaussian wave functions are studied. Their evolution for quadratic Hamiltonian case are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-31 O. Yu. Shvedov

We analyze the semiclassical evolution of Gaussian wavepackets in chaotic systems. We prove that after some short time a Gaussian wavepacket becomes a primitive WKB state. From then on, the state can be propagated using the standard TDWKB…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raphael N. P. Maia , Fernando Nicacio , Raul O. Vallejos , Fabricio Toscano

By utilizing quantum optics techniques, we examine the characteristics of a quantum gravitational wave (GW) signature at interferometers. In particular, we study the problem by analyzing the equations of motion of a GW interacting with an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 Luca Abrahao , Francesco Coradeschi , Antonia Micol Frassino , Thiago Guerreiro , Jennifer Rittenhouse West , Enrico Junior Schioppa

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

The current shift in the quantum optics community towards large-size experiments -- with many modes and photons -- necessitates new classical simulation techniques that go beyond the usual phase space formulation of quantum mechanics. To…