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In spite of their potential usefulness, Wigner functions for systems with SU(1,1) symmetry have not been explored thus far. We address this problem from a physically-motivated perspective, with an eye towards applications in modern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 U. Seyfarth , A. B. Klimov , H. de Guise , G. Leuchs , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

Many developing quantum technologies make use of quantum networks of different types. Even linear quantum networks are nontrivial, as the output photon distributions can be exponentially complex. Despite this, they can still be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 A. Dellios , Peter D. Drummond , Bogdan Opanchuk , Run Yan Teh , Margaret D. Reid

The quasi-probabilistic Wigner distributions are the quantum mechanical analog of the classical phase-space distributions. We investigate quark Wigner distributions for a quark state dressed with a gluon, which can be thought of as a simple…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-09 Jai More , Asmita Mukherjee , Sreeraj Nair

Wigner functions provide a way to do quantum physics using quasiprobabilities, that is, "probability" distributions that can go negative. Informationally complete POVMs, a much younger subject than phase space formulations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 John B. DeBrota , Blake C. Stacey

Quantum information is a common topic of research in many areas of quantum physics, such as quantum communication and quantum computation, as well as quantum thermodynamics. It can be encoded in discrete or continuous variable systems, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Jonas F. G. Santos , Carlos H. S. Vieira , Pedro R. Dieguez

Advances in photonics require photon-number resolved simulations of quantum optical experiments with Gaussian states. We demonstrate a simple and versatile method to simulate the photon statistics of general multimode Gaussian states. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 Erik Fitzke , Florian Niederschuh , Thomas Walther

In wireless sensor networks, various applications involve learning one or multiple functions of the measurements observed by sensors, rather than the measurements themselves. This paper focuses on type-threshold functions, e.g., the maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-11 Chien-Yi Wang , Sang-Woon Jeon , Michael Gastpar

We obtain a positive probability distribution or Q-function for an arbitrary fermionic many-body system. This is different to previous Q-function proposals, which were either restricted to a subspace of the overall Hilbert space, or used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-27 Laura E. C. Rosales-Zarate , P. D. Drummond

We present an efficient method for evaluating random phase errors in phase shifters within photonic integrated circuits, avoiding the computational cost of traditional Monte Carlo simulations. By modeling spatially correlated manufacturing…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-09 Zijian Zhang

The Wigner function was introduced as an attempt to describe quantum-mechanical fields with the tools inherited from classical statistical mechanics. In particular, it is widely used to describe the properties of radiation fields. In fact,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Juan Camilo López Carreño

We first review the usefulness of the Wigner distribution functions (WDF), associated with Lindblad and pre-master equations, for analyzing a host of problems in Quantum Optics where dissipation plays a major role, an arena where weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. F. O'Connell

We study the Wigner functions of the nucleon which provide multidimensional images of the quark distributions in phase space. These functions can be obtained through a Fourier transform in the transverse space of the generalized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-08 Cedric Lorce , Barbara Pasquini

In quantum mechanics, the Wigner function $\rho_W(\textbf{r},\textbf{p})$ serves as a phase-space representation, capturing information about both the position $\textbf{r}$ and momentum $\textbf{p}$ of a quantum system. The Wigner function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Reiko Yamada , Antoine Reserbat-Plantey , Eloy Piñol , Maciej Lewenstein

Time evolution of the expectation values of various dynamical operators of the harmonic oscillator with dissipation is analitically obtained within the framework of the Lindblad's theory for open quantum systems. We deduce the density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Aurelian Isar

The presence of negative values in the Wigner quasiprobability distribution is deemed one of the hallmarks of nonclassical phenomena in quantum systems. Here we demonstrate a classical model of squeezed light that, when combined with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Brian R. La Cour

We define the Wigner distribution of a tempered generalized stochastic process that is complex-valued symmetric Gaussian. This gives a time-frequency generalized stochastic process defined on the phase space. We study its covariance and our…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Patrik Wahlberg

In previous articles we have developed a theory of down conversion in nonlinear crystals, based on the Wigner representation of the radiation field. Taking advantage of the fact that the Wigner function is always positive in parametric down…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Casado , Trevor Marshall , Ramon Risco-Delgado , Emilio Santos

We propose a simple phenomenological model to estimate the spatial decoherence time in quantum dots. The dissipative phase space dynamics is described in terms of the density matrix and the corresponding Wigner function, which are derived…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-05 Michael Genkin , Erik Waltersson , Eva Lindroth

The sub-Gaussian stable distribution is a heavy-tailed elliptically contoured law which has interesting applications in signal processing and financial mathematics. This work addresses the problem of feasible estimation of distributions. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-08-04 Taras Bodnar , Dmitry Otryakhin , Erik Thorsen

The coherence properties of the classical waves are discussed in terms of the Cauchy problem for the wave equation, and of a discrete representation by an ensemble of Hamiltonian systems. Wave quanta are related to specific "action fields",…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 M. Grigorescu