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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 show here that besides the well known Hermite polynomials, the q-deformed harmonic oscillator algebra admits another function space associated to a particular family of q-polynomials, namely the Rogers-Szego polynomials. Their main…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Galetti , S. S. Mizrahi , M. Ruzzi

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 Wigner function of a dynamical infinite dimensional lattice is studied. A closed differential equation without diffusion terms for this function is obtained and solved. We map atom-photon interaction systems, such as the Jaynes-Cummings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-03 A. Rosado , E. Sadurní , J. M. Torres

Using linear invariant operators in a constructive way we find the most general thermal density operator and Wigner function for time-dependent generalized oscillators. The general Wigner function has five free parameters and describes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sang Pyo Kim , Don N. Page

A generalized Weyl quantization formalism for a particle on the circle investigated in \cite{1} is developed. A Wigner function for the state $\hat{\varrho}$ and the kernel $\mathcal{K}$ for a particle on the circle is defined and its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Maciej Przanowski , Przemyslaw Brzykcy , Jaromir Tosiek

We analyze quasi probability distributions in discrete phase space related to the discrete Heisenberg-Weyl group. In particular, we discuss the relation between the Discrete Wigner and Q- functions.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. Munoz Villegas , A. Chavez Chavez , S. Chumakov , Yu. Fofanov , A. B. Klimov

The Wigner function, which provides a phase-space description of quantum systems, has various applications in quantum mechanics, quantum kinetic theory, quantum optics, radiation transport and others. The concept of Wigner function has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-05 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

We study the Wigner function for the inflationary tensor perturbation defined in the real phase space. We compute explicitly the Wigner function including the contributions from the cubic self-interaction Hamiltonian of tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Min-Seok Seo

We study a class of phase-space distribution functions that is generated from a Gaussian convolution of the Wigner distribution function. This class of functions represents the joint count probability in simultaneous measurements of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 Hai-Woong Lee

Higher (2nd)-order Wigner distribution function in quantum phase space for entangled bi-modal coherent states, a representative of higher (2nd)-order optical-polarization, is introduced by generalizing kernel (transiting) operator in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-04 Ravi S. Singh , Sunil P. Singh , Lallan Yadava , Gyaneshwar K. Gupta

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

The Wigner function of quantum systems is an effective instrument to construct the approximate classical description of the systems for which the classical approximation is possible. During the last time, the Wigner function formalism is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Constantin V. Usenko

We study a generalization of the Wigner function to arbitrary tuples of hermitian operators, which is a distribution uniquely characterized by the property that the marginals for all linear combinations of the given operators agree with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 René Schwonnek , Reinhard F. Werner

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 Wigner function shares several properties with classical distribution functions on phase space, but is not positive-definite. The integral of the Wigner function over a given region of phase space can therefore lie outside the interval…

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

We examine the interpretation of individual phase-space trajectories of the Wigner function as corresponding to possible outcomes of single experimental trials. To this end, we investigate the relation between the true (measured) particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 R. J. Lewis-Swan , M. K. Olsen , K. V. Kheruntsyan

In the framework of statistical optics, a Wigner function represents partially coherent radiation. A Gaussian Wigner function, which is an equivalent representation of the more commonly used Gaussian Schell-model cross-spectral density, may…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Ilya V. Pogorelov , Boaz Nash , Dan T. Abell , Paul Moeller , Nicholas Goldring

In order to determine the Wigner function uniquely, we introduce a new condition which ensures that the Wigner function has correct marginal distributions along tilted lines. For a system in $N$ dimensional Hilbert space, whose "phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Minoru Horibe , Akiyoshi Takami , Takaaki Hashimoto , Akihisa Hayashi

We introduce a quantum phase space representation for the orientation state of extended quantum objects, using the Euler angles and their conjugate momenta as phase space coordinates. It exhibits the same properties as the standard Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Timo Fischer , Clemens Gneiting , Klaus Hornberger