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A fluid analog of the information flux in the phase-space associated to purity and von Neumann entropy are identified in the Weyl-Wigner formalism of quantum mechanics. Once constrained by symmetry and positiveness, the encountered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Alex E. Bernardini , Orfeu Bertolami

Phase-space features of the Wigner flow are examined so to provide a set of continuity equations that describe the flux of quantum information in the phase-space. The reported results suggest that the non-classicality profile of anharmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Alex E. Bernardini , Orfeu Bertolami

Given its well known spectral decomposition profile, the $1$-dim harmonic oscillator potential modified by an inverse square ($1$-dim angular momentum-like) contribution works as an efficient platform for probing classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 Alex E. Bernardini , Caio Fernando e Silva

Phase-space features of the Wigner flow for generic one-dimensional systems with a Hamiltonian, $H^{W}(q,\,p)$, constrained by the $\partial ^2 H^{W} / \partial q \partial p = 0$ condition are analytically obtained in terms of Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Alex E. Bernardini , Orfeu Bertolami

There are no phase-space trajectories for anharmonic quantum systems, but Wigner's phase-space representation of quantum mechanics features Wigner current~$\bf J$. This current reveals fine details of quantum dynamics -- finer than is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-11 Dimitris Kakofengitis , Ole Steuernagel

Quantifiers of stationarity, classicality, purity and vorticity are derived from phase-space differential geometrical structures within the Weyl-Wigner framework, after which they are related to the hyperbolic stability of classical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Alex E. Bernardini

Nonclassicality is a key ingredient for quantum enhanced technologies and experiments involving macro- scopic quantum coherence. Considering various exactly-solvable quantum-oscillator systems, we address the role played by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 F. Albarelli , A. Ferraro , M. Paternostro , M. G. A. Paris

We propose a phase-space Wigner harmonics entropy measure for many-body quantum dynamical complexity. This measure, which reduces to the well known measure of complexity in classical systems and which is valid for both pure and mixed states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 Vinitha Balachandran , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Jiangbin Gong

The quantum phase-space dynamics driven by hyperbolic P\"oschl-Teller (PT) potentials is investigated in the context of the Weyl-Wigner quantum mechanics. The obtained Wigner functions for quantum superpositions of ground and first-excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Alex E. Bernardini , Roldao Da Rocha

We propose a Wigner function based parameter that can be used as an indicator of quantum chaos. This parameter is defined as "entropy" from the time-dependence of "non-classicallity" proposed in \cite{KZ04}. We perform our considerations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-02 A. Kowalewska-Kudłaszyk , J. K. Kalaga , W. Leoński

We propose an anharmonic oscillator driven by two periodic forces of different frequencies as a new time-dependent model for investigating quantum dissipative chaos. Our analysis is done in the frame of statistical ensemble of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. H. Adamyan , S. B. Manvelyan , G. Yu. Kryuchkyan

The manner in which unpredictable chaotic dynamics manifests itself in quantum mechanics is a key question in the field of quantum chaos. Indeed, very distinct quantum features can appear due to underlying classical nonlinear dynamics. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 G. B. Lemos , R. M. Gomes , S. P. Walborn , P. H. Souto Ribeiro , F. Toscano

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…

The Hamiltonian flow of a classical, time-independent, conservative system is incompressible, it is Liouvillian. The analog of Hamilton's equations of motion for a quantum-mechanical system is the quantum-Liouville equation. It is shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-17 Dimitris Kakofengitis , Ole Steuernagel

We extend the Wigner current vector field (Wigner current) construct to single bosonic mode quantum systems interacting with an environment. In terms of the Wigner function quasiprobability density and associated Wigner current, the open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 William F. Braasch , Oscar D. Friedman , Alexander J. Rimberg , Miles P. Blencowe

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 consider the quantum evolution of classically chaotic systems in contact with surroundings. Based on $\hbar$-scaling of an equation for time evolution of the Wigner's quasi-probability distribution function in presence of dissipation and…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 B. C. Bag , S. Chaudhuri , J. Ray Chaudhuri , D. S. Ray

In this thesis concrete quantum systems are investigated in the framework of the environment induced decoherence. The focus is on the dynamics of highly nonclassical quantum states, the Wigner function of which are negative over some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Foldi

Non-Gaussian correlations in a pure state are inextricably linked with non-classical features, such as a non positive-definite Wigner function. In a commonly used simulation technique in ultracold atoms and quantum optics, known as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 J. F. Corney , M. K. Olsen

We present a quantum theory of the shuttle instability in electronic transport through a nanostructure with a mechanical degree of freedom. A phase space formulation in terms of the Wigner function allows us to identify a cross-over from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomas Novotny , Andrea Donarini , Antti-Pekka Jauho
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