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When we have noncommutativity among coordinates (or conjugate momenta), we consider Wigner's formulation of quantum mechanics, including a new derivation of path integral formula. We also propose the Moyal star product based on the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Kokado , Takashi Okamura , Takesi Saito

Traditional theories of electron transport in crystals are based on the Boltzmann equation and do not capture physics arising from quantum coherence. We introduce a transport formalism based on ''orbital Wigner functions'', which accurately…

We present an alternative formulation of quantum mechanical angular momentum, based on spatial wavefunctions that depend on the Euler angles $\phi, \theta, \chi$, and have an additional internal projection $n$. The wavefunctions are Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 T. Peter Rakitzis

We study the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 fermions in electromagnetic fields. Dirac form kinetic equation and Klein-Gordon form kinetic equation are obtained for the Wigner function, which are derived from the Dirac equation. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Xin-Li Sheng

The quark orbital angular momentum (OAM) has been recognized as an important piece of the proton spin puzzle. A lot of effort has been invested in trying to extract it quantitatively from the generalized parton distributions (GPDs) and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Cedric Lorce , Barbara Pasquini

We investigate the quark orbital angular momentum of the nucleon in the absence of gauge-field degrees of freedom, by using the concept of the Wigner distribution and the light-cone wave functions of the Fock state expansion of the nucleon.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 C. Lorce' , B. Pasquini , X. Xiong , F. Yuan

The concept of the Wigner function is used to construct a semi-classical kinetic theory describing the evolution of the axial-current phase-space density of spin-1/2 particles in the relaxation time approximation. The resulting approach can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-01 Samapan Bhadury , Wojciech Florkowski , Amaresh Jaiswal , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski

The coupled dynamics of low lying modes and various giant resonances are studied with the help of the Wigner Function Moments method generalized to take into account spin degrees of freedom and pair correlations simultaneously. The method…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 E. B. Balbutsev , I. V. Molodtsova , P. Schuck

Bifractional displacement operators, are introduced by performing two fractional Fourier transforms on displacement operators. They are shown to be special cases of elements of the group G, that contains both displacements and squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 S. Agyo , C. Lei , A. Vourdas

The Schr\"odinger equation in phase space is used to calculate the Wigner function for the Helium atom in the approximation of a system of two oscillators. Dissipation effect is analysed and the non-classicality of the state is studied by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 H. Dessano , R. G. G. Amorim , S. C. Ulhoa , A. E. Santana

We present a new quasi-probability distribution function for ensembles of spin-half particles or qubits that has many properties in common with Wigner's original function for systems of continuous variables. We show that this function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-04 Derek Harland , M. J. Everitt , Kae Nemoto , T. Tilma , T. P. Spiller

Projection operators arise naturally as one-particle density operators associated to Slater determinants in fields such as quantum mechanics and the study of determinantal processes. In the context of the semiclassical approximation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Laurent Lafleche

The isotropic 3-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential can serve as an approximate description of many systems in atomic, solid state, nuclear, and particle physics. In particular, the question of 2 particles binding (or coalescing) into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Michael Kordell , Rainer J. Fries , Che Ming Ko

In the second part of this paper in micro canonical ensemble the new numerical approach for consideration of quantum dynamics and calculations of the average values of quantum operators and time correlation functions in the Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Filinov , Yu. Lozovik , A. Filinov , I. Zacharov , A. Oparin

The Weyl quantization of classical observables on the torus (as phase space) without regularity assumptions is explicitly computed. The equivalence class of symbols yielding the same Weyl operator is characterized. The Heisenberg equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 Marilena Ligabò

An adaptation of the WKB method in the deformation quantization formalism is presented with the aim to obtain an approximate technique of solving the eigenvalue problem for energy in the phase space quantum approach. A relationship between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Jaromir Tosiek , Ruben Cordero , Francisco J. Turrubiates

We investigate quark Wigner distributions in a light-cone spectator model. Both the scalar and the axial-vector spectators are included. The light-cone wave functions are derived from effective quark-spectator-nucleon vertex and then…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-01 Tianbo Liu

Space-time multivectors in Clifford algebra (space-time algebra) and their application to nonlinear electrodynamics are considered. Functional product and infinitesimal operators for translation and rotation groups are introduced, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Chernitskii

We propose the assumption of quantum mechanics on a discrete space and time, which implies the modification of mathematical expressions for some postulates of quantum mechanics. In particular we have a Hilbert space where the vectors are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lorente

Definitions of orbital angular momentum based on Wigner distributions are used as a framework to discuss the connection between the Ji definition of the quark orbital angular momentum and that of Jaffe and Manohar.We find that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Matthias Burkardt