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We construct an explicit Wigner function for N-mode squeezed state. Based on a previous observation that the Wigner function describes correlations in the joint measurement of the phase-space displaced parity operator, we investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chunfeng Wu , Jing-Ling Chen , L. C. Kwek , C. H. Oh , Kang Xue

This work explores the intersection of quantum mechanics and curved spacetime by employing the Wigner formalism to investigate quantum systems in the vicinity of black holes. Specifically, we study the quantum dynamics of a probe particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 David Garcia-Garcia , Jose A. R. Cembranos

We estimate the quantum state of a light beam from results of quantum homodyne measurements performed on identically prepared quantum systems. The state is represented through the Wigner function, a generalized probability density on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-23 Cristina Butucea , Madalin Guţa , Luis Artiles

Numerical simulation of continuous variable quantum state preparation is a necessary tool for optimization of existing quantum information processing protocols. A powerful instrument for such simulation is the numerical computation in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Jan Provazník , Radim Filip , Petr Marek

Recently a new formulation of quantum mechanics has been suggested which describes systems by means of ensembles of classical particles provided with a sign. This novel approach mainly consists of two steps: the computation of the Wigner…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Jean Michel Sellier

The concept of phase space distribution functions and their evolution is used in the case of en enlarged phase space. In particular, we include the intrinsic spin of particles and present a quantum kinetic evolution equation for a scalar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Marklund , J. Zamanian , G. Brodin

We give a definition for the Wigner function for quantum mechanics on the Bohr compactification of the real line and prove a number of simple consequences of this definition. We then discuss how this formalism can be applied to loop quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christopher J. Fewster , Hanno Sahlmann

We present a kinetic theory for Bose-Einstein condensation of a weakly interacting atomic gas in a trap. Starting from first principles, we establish a Markovian kinetic description for the evolution towards equilibrium. In particular, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Walser , J. Williams , J. Cooper , M. Holland

We examine the medium time quantum dynamics and population equilibration of two, three and four-well Bose-Hubbard models using stochastic integration in the truncated Wigner phase-space representation. We find that all three systems will…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-30 C. V. Chianca , M. K. Olsen

Stochastic field equations represent a powerful tool to describe the thermal state of a trapped Bose gas. Often, such approaches are confronted with the old problem of an ultraviolet catastrophe, which demands a cutoff at high energies. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Heller , W. T. Strunz

In broadband quantum optical systems, nonlinear interactions among a large number of frequency components induce complex dynamics that may defy heuristic analysis. In this work we introduce a perturbative framework for factoring out…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Chris Gustin , Ryotatsu Yanagimoto , Edwin Ng , Tatsuhiro Onodera , Hideo Mabuchi

We study the truncated Wigner method (TWM) applied to a weakly interacting Bose condensed gas perturbed away from thermal equilibrium. The idea of the method is to generate an ensemble of classical fields which samples the Wigner function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Alice Sinatra , Carlos Lobo , Yvan Castin

A simple method has been introduced to derive the all order quantum corrected Bose-Einstein distribution as the solution of the Wigner equation. The process is a perturbative one where the Bose-Einstein distribution has been taken as the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-01 Anirban Bose

We present a novel experimental approach to Bose-Einstein condensation by increasing the particle number of the system at almost constant temperature. In particular the emergence of a new condensate is observed in multi-component F=1 spinor…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Erhard , H. Schmaljohann , J. Kronjäger , K. Bongs , K. Sengstock

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

This work concerns the computation of ground states of two-component spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (SO-coupled BECs), modelled by a coupled nonlinear eigenvalue problem of Gross-Pitaevskii type. Spin-orbit coupling gives rise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Patrick Henning , Laura Huynh

We perform fully three-dimensional simulations, using the truncated Wigner method, to investigate the reflection of Bose-Einstein condensates from abrupt potential barriers. We show that the inter-atomic interactions can disrupt the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 R. G. Scott , D. A. W. Hutchinson , C. W. Gardiner

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

The emergence of classical behavior from quantum mechanics as Planck's constant $\hbar$ approaches zero remains a fundamental challenge in physics [1-3]. This paper introduces a novel approach employing deep neural networks to directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Kamran Majid

We present an operational definition of the Wigner function. Our method relies on the Fresnel transform of measured Rabi oscillations and applies to motional states of trapped atoms as well as to field states in cavities. We illustrate this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Lougovski , E. Solano , Z. M. Zhang , H. Walther , H. Mack , W. P. Schleich