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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

Motivated by some well-known results in the phase space description of quantum optics and quantum information theory, we aim to describe the formalism of quantum field theory by explicitly considering the holomorphic representation for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jasel Berra-Montiel , Alberto Molgado

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

Since the very early days of quantum theory there have been numerous attempts to interpret quantum mechanics as a statistical theory. This is equivalent to describing quantum states and ensembles together with their dynamics entirely in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 R. P. Rundle , Todd Tilma , J. H. Samson , V. M. Dwyer , R. F. Bishop , M. 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 review the Weyl-Wigner formulation of quantum mechanics in phase space. We discuss the concept of Narcowich-Wigner spectrum and use it to state necessary and sufficient conditions for a phase space function to be a Wigner distribution.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nuno Costa Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

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

Wigner function is a quasi-distribution that provides a representation of the state of a quantum mechanical system in the phase space of position and momentum. In this paper we find a relation between Wigner function and appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pier A. Mello , Michael Revzen

The existence of a minimal measurable length as a characteristic length in the Planck scale is one of the main features of quantum gravity and has been widely explored in the context. Various different deformations of spacetime have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-30 M. Khodadi , K. Nozari , S. Dey , A. Bhat , Mir Faizal

This article comprises a review of both the quasi-probability representations of infinite-dimensional quantum theory (including the Wigner function) and the more recently defined quasi-probability representations of finite-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 Christopher Ferrie

We examine the deformation quantization of a single particle moving in one dimension (i) in the presence of an infinite potential wall, (ii) confined by an infinite square well, and (iii) bound by a delta function potential energy. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Kryukov , M. A. Walton

In the beginning of the 1950's, Wigner introduced a fundamental deformation from the canonical quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator, which is nowadays sometimes called a Wigner quantum oscillator or a parabose oscillator. Also, in quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-06-27 E. I. Jafarov , S. Lievens , J. Van der Jeugt

A description of scalar charged particles, based on the Feshbach-Villars formalism, is proposed. Particles are described by an object that is a Wigner function in usual coordinates and momenta and a density matrix in the charge variable. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. I. Lev , A. A. Semenov , C. V. Usenko

We study the properties of quasi-distributions or Wigner measures in the context of noncommutative quantum mechanics. In particular, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a phase-space function to be a noncommutative Wigner…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 C. Bastos , N. C. Dias , J. N. Prata

Classical mechanics is formulated in complex Hilbert space with the introduction of a commutative product of operators, an antisymmetric bracket, and a quasidensity operator. These are analogues of the star product, the Moyal bracket, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 A. J. Bracken

In these lecture notes I give an introduction to deformation quantization. The quantization problem is discussed in some detail thereby motivating the notion of star products. Starting from a deformed observable algebra, i.e. the star…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Waldmann

In this tenth paper of the series we aim at showing that our formalism, using the Wigner-Moyal Infinitesimal Transformation together with classical mechanics, endows us with the ways to quantize a system in any coordinate representation we…

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

The quantum state of a light beam can be represented as an infinite dimensional density matrix or equivalently as a density on the plane called the Wigner function. We describe quantum tomography as an inverse statistical problem in which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 L. M. Artiles , R. D. Gill , M. I. Guta

We develop the theory of Wigner representations for general probabilistic theories (GPTs), a large class of operational theories that include both classical and quantum theory. The Wigner representations that we introduce are a natural way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Ties-A. Ohst , Martin Plávala

In contrast to classical physics, the language of quantum mechanics involves operators and wave functions (or, more generally, density operators). However, in 1932, Wigner formulated quantum mechanics in terms of a distribution function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 R. F. O'Connell