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The relativistic phase-space representation by means of the usual position and momentum operators for a class of observables with Weyl symbols independent of charge variable (i.e. with any combination of position and momentum) is proposed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. I. Lev , A. A. Semenov , C. V. Usenko

We consider the dynamics of Dirac particles moving in the curved spaces with one coordinate subjected to compactification and thus interpolating smoothly between three- and two-dimensional spaces. We use the model of compactification, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-18 Alexander J. Silenko , Oleg V. Teryaev

The basics of the Wigner formulation of Quantum-Mechanics and few related interpretational issues are presented in a simple language. This formulation has extensive applications in Quantum Optics and in Mixed Quantum-Classical formulations.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-11 Ali Mohammad Nassimi

We derive the transport equations from the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck equation when the velocity space is spherically symmetric. The Shkarofsky's form of Fokker-Planck-Rosenbluth collision operator is employed in the Vlasov-Fokker-Planck…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Yanpeng Wang , Jianyuan Xiao , Xianhao Rao , Pengfei Zhang , Yolbarsop Adil , Ge Zhuang

We develop a systematic description of Weyl and Fano operators on a lattice phase space. Introducing the so-called ghost variable even on an odd lattice, odd and even lattices can be treated in a symmetric way. The Wigner function is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Hashimoto , M. Horibe , A. Hayashi

We introduce new representations to formulate quantum mechanics on noncommutative phase space, in which both coordinate-coordinate and momentum-momentum are noncommutative. These representations explicitly display entanglement properties…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-03 Si-Cong Jing , Bing-Sheng Lin

The formalism based on the equal-time Wigner function of the two-point correlation function for a quantized Klein--Gordon field is presented. The notion of the gauge-invariant Wigner transform is introduced and equations for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. Best , P. Gornicki , W. Greiner

In this paper we prove global existence of weak solutions, their regularization, and relaxation for large data for a broad class of Fokker-Planck-Alignment models which appear in collective dynamics. The main feature of these results, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-19 R. Shvydkoy

The purpose of this paper is to expose and investigate natural phase-space formulations of two longstanding problems in the restriction theory of the Fourier transform. These problems, often referred to as the Stein and Mizohata--Takeuchi…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Jonathan Bennett , Susana Gutierrez , Shohei Nakamura , Itamar Oliveira

We develop a path integral representation for the dynamics of quantum systems with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, formulated entirely within a discrete phase space. Starting from the discrete Wigner function defined on $\mathbb{Z}_d…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Leonardo A. Pachon , Andres F. Gomez

Exploring the concept of the extended Galilei group $\mathcal{G}$, a representation for the symplectic quantum mechanics in the manifold of $\mathcal{G}$, written in the light-cone of a five-dimensional De Sitter space-time, is derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-03 Gustavo Xavier Antunes Petronilo , Sergio Costa Ulhoa , Ademir Eugenio Santana

We study the relationship of the spectral form factor with quantum as well as classical probabilities to return. Defining a quantum return probability in phase space as a trace over the propagator of the Wigner function allows us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-16 Thomas Dittrich , Leonardo A. Pachon

The density operator for a quantum system in thermal equilibrium with its environment depends on Planck's constant, as well as the temperature. At high temperatures, the Weyl representation, that is, the thermal Wigner function, becomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Olivier Brodier

This paper introduces an extension of the de Broglie-Bohm-Bell formulation of quantum mechanics, which includes intrinsic particle degrees of freedom, such as spin, as elements of reality. To evade constraints from the Kochen-Specker…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Jeroen C. Vink

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

We show that real polarization method can be effectively used to geometrically quantize physical systems with compact phase space, like the spin. Our method enables us to construct a wave function of a qubit in both position and momentum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 Jerzy Kijowski , Piotr Waluk , Katarzyna Senger

Quantum phase-space distributions (Wigner functions) for the plane rotator are defined using wave functions expressed in both angle and angular momentum representations, with emphasis on the quantum superposition between the Fourier dual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 Marius Grigorescu

The Weyl-Wigner-Moyal formalism is developed for spin by means of a correspondence between spherical harmonics and spherical harmonic tensor operators. The analogue of the Moyal expansion is developed for the Weyl symbol of the product of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Feifei Li , Carol Braun , Anupam Garg

We consider the quantum mechanical equivalence of the Seiberg-Witten map in the context of the Weyl-Wigner-Groenewold-Moyal phase-space formalism in order to construct a quantum mechanics over noncommutative Heisenberg algebras. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Marcos Rosenbaum , J. David Vergara

We derive an analytical expression of a Wigner function that approximately describes the time evolution of the one-dimensional motion of a particle in a nonharmonic potential. Our method involves two exact frame transformations, accounting…