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We present a new quasi-probability distribution function for ensembles of spin-half particles or qubits that has many properties in common with Wigner's original function for systems of continuous variables. We show that this function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-04 Derek Harland , M. J. Everitt , Kae Nemoto , T. Tilma , T. P. Spiller

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

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

Series of finite dimensional representations of the superalgebras spl(p,q) can be formulated in terms of linear differential operators acting on a suitable space of polynomials. We sketch the general ingredients necessary to construct these…

q-alg · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yves Brihaye , Stefan Giller , Piotr Kosinski

The quantum analogue of the classical characteristic function for a spin 1/2 assembly is considered and the probability mass function of the random vector associated with the assembly is derived. It is seen that the positive regions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-26 Karthik Bharath , Swarnamala Sirsi , A R Usha Devi

One of the most prominent quasiprobability functions in quantum mechanics is the Wigner function that gives the right marginal probability functions if integrated over position or momentum. Here we depart from the definition of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 Hector Moya-Cessa

The representations of dimension vector $\alpha$ of the quiver Q can be parametrised by a vector space $R(Q,\alpha)$ on which an algebraic group $\Gl(\alpha)$ acts so that the set of orbits is bijective with the set of isomorphism classes…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aidan Schofield , Michel Van den Bergh

We introduce a quasi-probability phase space distribution with two pairs of azimuthal-angular coordinates. This representation is well adapted to describe quantum systems with discrete symmetry. Quantum error correction of states encoded in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 N. Fabre , A. Keller , P. Milman

It $d-$pends. Wigner's symmetry theorem implies that transformations that preserve transition probabilities of pure quantum states are linear maps on the level of density operators. We investigate the stability of this implication. On the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Javier Cuesta , Michael M. Wolf

In this paper, we introduce a complete family of parametrized quasi-probability distributions in phase space and their corresponding Weyl quantization maps with the aim to generalize the recently developed Wigner-Weyl formalism within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Jasel Berra-Montiel , Alberto Molgado

Given a real-valued phase-space function, it is a nontrivial task to determine whether it corresponds to a Wigner distribution for a physically acceptable quantum state. This topic has been of fundamental interest for long, and in a modern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hyunchul Nha

Husimi distributions and Wigner distributions are well-known quasi-probability distributions which appear in several contexts. In this paper, we show some remarkable aspects of these distribution functions related to geometric structures of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-28 Ryo Harada

The integral of the Wigner function of a quantum mechanical system over a region or its boundary in the classical phase plane, is called a quasiprobability integral. Unlike a true probability integral, its value may lie outside the interval…

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

This article outlines a novel interpretation of quantum theory: the Q-based interpretation. The core idea underlying this interpretation, recently suggested for quantum field theories by Drummond and Reid [2020], is to interpret the phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Simon Friederich

We investigate quantum tunneling in smooth symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials. Exact solutions for the ground and first excited states are used to study the dynamics. We introduce Wigner's quasi-probability distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-11 Dimitris Kakofengitis , Ole Steuernagel

Wigner function is a quasi-distribution that provides a representation of the state of a quantum mechanical system in the phase space of position and momentum. In this paper we find a relation between Wigner function and appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pier A. Mello , Michael Revzen

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

Quasiprobability representations, such as the Wigner function, play an important role in various research areas. The inevitable appearance of negativity in such representations is often regarded as a signature of nonclassicality, which has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Huangjun Zhu

The conventional Wigner function is inappropriate in a quantum field theory setting because, as a quasiprobability density over phase space, it is not manifestly Lorentz covariant. A manifestly relativistic variant is constructed as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Morgan

The Wigner function W(q,p) is formulated as a phase-space path integral, whereby its sign oscillations can be seen to follow from interference between the geometrical phases of the paths. The approach has similarities to the path-centroid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. H. Samson