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Beam splitters allow us to superpose two continuous single mode quantum systems. To study the behaviour of their strongly mode mixing dynamics we consider variable beam splitters and their dynamics using Wigner's phase space distribution,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Ole Steuernagel , Ray-Kuang Lee

We present the reconstruction of the Wigner function of some classical pulsed optical states obtained by direct measurement of the detected-photon probability distributions of the state displaced by a coherent field. We use a photodetector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Maria Bondani , Alessia Allevi , Alessandra Andreoni

We introduce a numerical method to simulate nonlinear open quantum dynamics of a particle in situations where its state undergoes significant expansion in phase space while generating small quantum features at the phase-space Planck scale.…

In this article we introduce a quasiprobability distribution of work that is based on the Wigner function. This construction rests on the idea that the work done on an isolated system can be coherently measured by coupling the system to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Federico Cerisola , Franco Mayo , Augusto J. Roncaglia

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

A wide range of experiments studying microwave photons localized in superconducting cavities have made important contributions to our understanding of the quantum properties of radiation. Propagating microwave photons, however, have so far…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-07 C. Eichler , D. Bozyigit , C. Lang , L. Steffen , J. Fink , A. Wallraff

We demonstrate that the Wigner function of a pure quantum state is a wave function in a specially tuned Dirac bra-ket formalism and argue that the Wigner function is in fact a probability amplitude for the quantum particle to be at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Denys I. Bondar , Renan Cabrera , Dmitry V. Zhdanov , Herschel A. Rabitz

Suppose we observe a trajectory of length $n$ from an exponentially $\alpha$-mixing stochastic process over a finite but potentially large state space. We consider the problem of estimating the probability mass placed by the stationary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-09 Milind Nakul , Vidya Muthukumar , Ashwin Pananjady

We represent both the states and the evolution of a quantum computer in phase space using the discrete Wigner function. We study properties of the phase space representation of quantum algorithms: apart from analyzing important examples,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cesar Miquel , Juan Pablo Paz , Marcos Saraceno

A method for characterising the wave-function of freely-propagating particles would provide a useful tool for developing quantum-information technologies with single electronic excitations. Previous continuous-variable quantum tomography…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 J. D. Fletcher , N. Johnson , E. Locane , P. See , J. P. Griffiths , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , P. W. Brouwer , V. Kashcheyevs , M. Kataoka

We define a Wigner distribution function for a one-dimensional finite quantum system, in which the position and momentum operators have a finite (multiplicity-free) spectrum. The distribution function is thus defined on discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 Joris Van der Jeugt

Phase-space representations based on coherent states (P, Q, Wigner) have been successful in the creation of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) for the efficient stochastic simulation of high dimensional quantum systems. However many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. R. Hush , A. R. R. Carvalho , J. J. Hope

The equation of motion for the reduced Wigner function of a system coupled to an external quantum system is presented for the specific case when the external quantum system can be modeled as a set of harmonic oscillators. The result is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-11 Dries Sels , Fons Brosens

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

The evolution of the discrete Wigner function is formally similar to a probabilistic process, but the transition probabilities, like the discrete Wigner function itself, can be negative. We investigate these transition probabilities, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 William F. Braasch , William K. Wootters

Wigner distributions play a significant role in formulating the phase space analogue of quantum mechanics. The Schrodinger wave-functional for solitons is needed to derive it for solitons. The Wigner distribution derived can further be used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Ramkumar Radhakrishnan , Vikash Kumar Ojha

The goal of this article is that of understanding how the oscillation and concentration effects developed by a sequence of functions in $\mathbb{R}^{d} $ are modified by the action of Sampling and Reconstruction operators on regular grids.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Fabricio Macia

In random matrix theory, the spacing distribution functions $p^{(n)}(s)$ are well fitted by the Wigner surmise and its generalizations. In this approximation the spacing functions are completely described by the behavior of the exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-19 Diego Luis Gonzalez , Gabriel Tellez

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

The Pairwise Einstein Model (PEM) of steps not only justifies the use of the Generalized Wigner Distribution (GWD) for Terrace Width Distributions (TWDs), it also predicts a specific form for the Step Position Distribution (SPD), i.e., the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Amber N. Benson , Howard L. Richards , T. L. Einstein