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Using the quadrature bases that incorporate the spatiotemporal degrees of freedom, we develop a Wigner functional theory for quantum optics, as an extension of the Moyal formalism. Since the spatiotemporal quadrature bases span the complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Filippus S. Roux , Nicolas Fabre

In this paper, we correct a mistake we made in [Phys. Rev. Lett. $\textbf{122}$, 190402 (2019)] and [Phys. Rev. A $\textbf{103}$, 012213 (2021)] regarding the Wigner function of the so-called smoothed Weak-Valued state (SWV state). Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Kiarn T. Laverick , Areeya Chantasri , Howard M. Wiseman

We consider the Wigner quasi-probability distribution function of a single mode of an electromagnetic or matter-wave field to address the question of whether a direct stochastic sampling and binning of the absolute square of the complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 R. J. Lewis-Swan , M. K. Olsen , K. V. Kheruntsyan

We present a phase space description of the process of quantum teleportation for a system with an $N$ dimensional space of states. For this purpose we define a discrete Wigner function which is a minor variation of previously existing ones.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Juan Pablo Paz

We study the $L^2$-gradient flow of functionals $\mathcal F$ depending on the eigenvalues of Schr\"odinger potentials $V$ for a wide class of differential operators associated to closed, symmetric, and coercive bilinear forms, including the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-15 Dario Mazzoleni , Giuseppe Savaré

We determine a positive normalised phase space probability distribution $P$ with minimum mean square fractional deviation from the Wigner distribution $W$ .The minimum deviation, an invariant under phase space rotations, is a quantitative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Arunabha S. Roy , S. M. Roy

This paper develops a functional-analytic framework for approximating the push-forward induced by an analytic map from finitely many samples. Instead of working directly with the map, we study the push-forward on the space of locally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Isao Ishikawa

Eigenfunctions of the fractional Schr\"odinger operators in a domain $\mathcal{D}$ are considered, and a relation between the supremum of the potential and the distance of a maximizer of the eigenfunction from $\partial\mathcal{D}$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-06 Anup Biswas

Despite the indisputable merits of the Wigner phase-space formulation, it has not been widely explored for systems with SU(1,1) symmetry, as a simple operational definition of the Wigner function has proved elusive in this case. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-20 N. Fabre , A. B. Klimov , G. Leuchs , L. L. Sanchez-Soto

We introduce a simple, general, and convergent scheme to compute generalized eigenfunctions of self-adjoint operators with continuous spectra on rigged Hilbert spaces. Our approach does not require prior knowledge about the eigenfunctions,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Matthew J. Colbrook , Andrew Horning , Tianyiwa Xie

By using the localized character of canonical coherent states, we give a straightforward derivation of the Bargmann integral representation of Wigner function (W). A non-integral representation is presented in terms of a quadratic form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando Parisio

We study the eigenvalues of Schr\"odinger operators on $\mathbb{R}^2$ with rapidly oscillatory potential $V(x) = W(x,x/\varepsilon)$, where $W(x,y) \in C^\infty_0(\mathbb{R}^2 \times \mathbb{T}^2)$ satisfies $\int_{\mathbb{T}^2} W(x,y) dy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-13 Alexis Drouot

We demonstrate experimentally a novel technique for characterizing transverse spatial coherence using the Wigner distribution function. The presented method is based on measuring interference between a pair of rotated and displaced replicas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eran Mukamel , Konrad Banaszek , Ian A. Walmsley , Christophe Dorrer

By means of a well-grounded mapping scheme linking Schwinger unitary operators and generators of the special unitary group $\mathrm{SU(N)}$, it is possible to establish a self-consistent theoretical framework for finite-dimensional discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Marcelo A. Marchiolli , Diogenes Galetti

For a matrix $W \in \mathbb{Z}^{m \times n}$, $m \leq n$, and a convex function $g: \mathbb{R}^m \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, we are interested in minimizing $f(x) = g(Wx)$ over the set $\{0,1\}^n$. We will study separable convex functions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Christoph Hunkenschröder , Sebastian Pokutta , Robert Weismantel

We investigate within the formalism of Symplectic Quantum Mechanics a two-dimensional non-relativistic strong interacting system that represents the bound heavy quark-antiquark state, where it was considered a linear potential in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-24 M. Abu-Shady , Renato R. Luz , G. X. A. Petronilo , R. G. G. Amorim , A. E. Santana

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

In this paper we generalize the concept of Wigner function in the case of quantum mechanics with a minimum length scale arising due to the application of a generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). We present the phase space formulation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-28 Prathamesh Yeole , Vipul Kumar , Kaushik Bhattacharya

The problem of optimally measuring an analytic function of unknown local parameters each linearly coupled to a qubit sensor is well understood, with applications ranging from field interpolation to noise characterization. Here, we resolve a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Jacob Bringewatt , Adam Ehrenberg , Tarushii Goel , Alexey V. Gorshkov

The wavefunction for the multiparticle Schr\"odinger equation is a function of many variables and satisfies an antisymmetry condition, so it is natural to approximate it as a sum of Slater determinants. Many current methods do so, but they…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregory Beylkin , Martin J. Mohlenkamp , Fernando Pérez