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We discuss some basic tools for an analysis of one-dimensionalquantum systems defined on a cyclic coordinate space. The basic features of the generalized coherent states, the complexifier coherent states are reviewed. These states are then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Bahr , H. J. Korsch

A semiclassical approximation is derived by using a family of wavepackets to map arbitrary wavefunctions into phase space. If the Hamiltonian can be approximated as linear over each individual wavepacket, as often done when presenting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Clay D. Spence

Analogous coherent states are deduced from classical optical fields on curved surface in this paper. The Gaussian laser beam, as a fundamental mode, cannot be adequately simulated by coherent states due to their inherent diffraction in flat…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-23 Weifeng Ding , Zhaoying Wang

As a model for the semiclassical analysis of quantum-mechanical systems with both potentials and boundary conditions, we construct the WKB propagator for a linear potential sloping away from an impenetrable boundary. First, we find all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 T. A. Zapata , S. A. Fulling

For the visualization of quantum states, the approach based on Wigner functions can be very effective. Homodyne detection has been extensively used to obtain the density matrix, Wigner functions and tomographic reconstructions of optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-25 Peter Vasil'ev , Richard Penty , Ian White

The strictly classical propagation of an initial Wigner function, referred to as TWA or LSC-IVR, is considered to provide approximate averages, despite not being a true Wigner function: it does not represent a positive operator. We here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Kelvin Titimbo , Gabriel M. Lando , Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

This paper reexamines the results of Cummings in which the quantum mechanical two-level-system (TLS) interacts with the electromagnetic field with various initial distributions and extends that work for both resonant and non-resonant to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-03 M. T. Tavis , F. W. Cummings

We report a fully kinetic, quantum study of Kinetic Electrostatic Electron Nonlinear (KEEN) waves, showing that quantum diffraction systematically erodes the classical trapping mechanism, narrow harmonic locking to the fundamental, and…

We present an analytical framework for the emergence of nonclassical radiation in strongly laser-driven quantum systems, with a focus on high-order harmonic generation (HHG). Starting from a Pauli-Fierz description, we employ a parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Ivan Gonoskov , Christian Hünecke , Stefanie Gräfe

The analysis of wave-packet dynamics may be greatly simplified when viewed in phase-space. While harmonic oscillators are often used as a convenient platform to study wave-packets, arbitrary state preparation in these systems is more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yoni Shalibo , Roy Resh , Ofer Fogel , David Shwa , Radoslaw Bialczak , John M. Martinis , Nadav Katz

Using the Wigner distribution function, we analyze the behavior on phase space of generalized coherent states associated with the Morse potential (Morse-like coherent states). Within the f-deformed oscillator formalism, such states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 O. de los Santos-Sánchez , J. Récamier

We show that scattering amplitudes between initial wave packet states and certain coherent final states can be computed in a systematic weak coupling expansion about classical solutions satisfying initial value conditions. The initial value…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Thomas M. Gould , Stephen D. H. Hsu , Erich R. Poppitz

We introduce a semi-classical wavefunction (SCWF) model for strong-field physics and attosecond science. When applied to high harmonic generation (HHG), this formalism allows one to show that the natural time-domain separation of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Francois Mauger , Paul Abanador , Kenneth Lopata , Kenneth J. Schafer , Mette B. Gaarde

We introduce a new density for the representation of quantum states on phase space. It is constructed as a weighted difference of two smooth probability densities using the Husimi function and first-order Hermite spectrograms. In contrast…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Johannes Keller , Caroline Lasser , Tomoki Ohsawa

The nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLSE) is a fundamental model that describes diverse complex phenomena in nature. However, simulating the NLSE on a quantum computer is inherently challenging due to the presence of the nonlinear term.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Kaiwen Weng , Zhaoyuan Meng , Guohui Hu

The representation of quantum states via phase-space functions constitutes an intuitive technique to characterize light. However, the reconstruction of such distributions is challenging as it demands specific types of detectors and detailed…

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 investigate within the formalism of Symplectic Quantum Mechanics a two-dimensional non-relativistic strong interacting system that represents the bound heavy quark-antiquark state, where it was considered a linear potential in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-24 M. Abu-Shady , Renato R. Luz , G. X. A. Petronilo , R. G. G. Amorim , A. E. Santana

Undulator radiation from synchrotron light sources must be transported down a beamline from the source to the sample. A partially coherent photon beam may be represented in phase space using a Wigner function, and its transport may use some…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Boaz Nash , Nicholas Goldring , Jonathan Edelen , Stephen Webb , Rafael Celestre

We study the semiclassical propagation of coherent states in $d$ dimensions, which in general involves complex classical dynamics. Several simple approximations are derived that depend only on real classical trajectories, among them the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-04 M. Novaes , M. A. M. de Aguiar