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The phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics has recently seen increased use in testing quantum technologies, including metho ds of tomography for state verification and device validation. Here, an overview of quantum mechanics in phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-05 Russell P Rundle , Mark J Everitt

Time-symmetric quantum mechanics can be described in the usual Weyl--Wigner--Moyal formalism (WWM) by using the properties of the Wigner distribution, and its generalization, the cross-Wigner distribution. The use of the latter makes clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Charlyne de Gosson , Maurice de Gosson

We extend the Wigner-Weyl-Moyal phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics to general curved configuration spaces. The underlying phase space is based on the chosen coordinates of the manifold and their canonically conjugate momenta. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Clemens Gneiting , Timo Fischer , Klaus Hornberger

Wigner's quasi-probability distribution function in phase-space is a special (Weyl) representation of the density matrix. It has been useful in describing quantum transport in quantum optics; nuclear physics; decoherence (eg, quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cosmas K Zachos

Weyl's formulation of quantum mechanics opened the possibility of studying the dynamics of quantum systems both in infinite-dimensional and finite-dimensional systems. Based on Weyl's approach, generalized by Schwinger, a self-consistent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Nicolae Cotfas , Daniela Dragoman

We examine the visualization of quantum mechanics in phase space by means of the Wigner function and the Wigner function flow as a complementary approach to illustrating quantum mechanics in configuration space by wave functions. The Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-17 Heiko Bauke , Noya Ruth Itzhak

We sketch a group-theoretical framework, based on the Heisenberg-Weyl group, encompassing both quantum and classical statistical descriptions of mechanical systems. We re-define in group-theoretical terms the kinematical arena and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. K. Korbicz , M. Lewenstein

We present a detailed discussion of a general theory of phase-space distributions, introduced recently by the authors [J. Phys. A {\bf 31}, L9 (1998)]. This theory provides a unified phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics for physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Brif , A. Mann

We address the phase space formulation of a noncommutative extension of quantum mechanics in arbitrary dimension, displaying both spatial and momentum noncommutativity. By resorting to a covariant generalization of the Weyl-Wigner transform…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Catarina Bastos , Orfeu Bertolami , Nuno Costa Dias , João Nuno Prata

In this paper we present a survey of the use of differential geometric formalisms to describe Quantum Mechanics. We analyze Schr\"odinger framework from this perspective and provide a description of the Weyl-Wigner construction. Finally,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-13 J. Clemente-Gallardo , G. Marmo

The article explores a new formalism for describing motion in quantum mechanics. The construction is based on generalized coherent states with evolving fiducial vector. Weyl-Heisenberg coherent states are utilised to split quantum systems…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-10 Artur Miroszewski

The Weyl-Wigner representation of quantum mechanics allows one to map the density operator in a function in phase space - the Wigner function - which acts like a probability distribution. In the context of statistical mechanics, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Marcos Gil de Oliveira , Alfredo Miguel Ozorio de Almeida

We present a phase space formulation of quantum mechanics in the Schr\"odinger representation and derive the associated Weyl pseudo-differential calculus. We prove that the resulting theory is unitarily equivalent to the standard…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 Nuno Costa Dias , Maurice de Gosson , Franz Luef , João Nuno Prata

Extending the phase-space description of the Weyl-Wigner quantum mechanics to a subset of non-linear Hamiltonians in position and momentum, gaussian functions are identified as the quantum ground state. Once a Hamiltonian, $H^{W}(q,\,p)$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Alex E. Bernardini , Orfeu Bertolami

The quantum Liouville equation, which describes the phase space dynamics of a quantum system of fermions, is analyzed from statistical point of view as a particular example of the Kramers-Moyal expansion. Quantum mechanics is extended to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 R. Tsekov

In the usual formulation of quantum mechanics, groups of automorphisms of quantum states have ray representations by unitary and antiunitary operators on complex Hilbert space, in accordance with Wigner's Theorem. In the phase-space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 A. J. Bracken , G. Cassinelli , J. G. Wood

In our previous papers we were interested in making a reconstruction of quantum mechanics according to classical mechanics. In this paper we suspend this program for a while and turn our attention to a theme in the frontier of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. F. Olavo

We show that QM can be represented as a natural projection of a classical statistical model on the phase space $\Omega= H\times H,$ where $H$ is the real Hilbert space. Statistical states are given by Gaussian measures on $\Omega$ having…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrei Khrennikov

Phase-space representations as given by Wigner functions are a powerful tool for representing the quantum state and characterizing its time evolution in the case of infinite-dimensional quantum systems and have been widely used in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Bálint Koczor , Robert Zeier , Steffen J. Glaser

The Wigner-Weyl isomorphism for quantum mechanics on a compact simple Lie group $G$ is developed in detail. Several New features are shown to arise which have no counterparts in the familiar Cartesian case. Notable among these is the notion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Mukunda , G. Marmo , Alessandro Zampini , S. Chaturvedi , R. Simon
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