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In this first of a series of four articles, it is shown how a hamiltonian quantum dynamics can be formulated based on a generalization of classical probability theory using the notion of quasi-invariant measures on the classical phase space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-08-13 S. Maxson

Quantum harmonic oscillators are central to many modern quantum technologies. We introduce a method to determine the frequency noise spectrum of oscillator modes through coupling them to a qubit with continuously driven…

We represent both the states and the evolution of a quantum computer in phase space using the discrete Wigner function. We study properties of the phase space representation of quantum algorithms: apart from analyzing important examples,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Cesar Miquel , Juan Pablo Paz , Marcos Saraceno

The phase oscillator model with global coupling is extended to the case of finite-range nonlocal coupling. Under suitable conditions, peculiar patterns emerge in which a quasi-continuous array of identical oscillators separates sharply into…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshiki Kuramoto , Dorjsuren Battogtokh

We revisit the quantized version of the harmonic oscillator obtained through a q-dependent family of coherent states. For each q, 0< q < 1, these normalized states form an overcomplete set that resolves the unity with respect to an explicit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. P. Gazeau , M. A. del Olmo

We study the quantum properties of a nanomechanical oscillator via the squeezing of the oscillator amplitude. The static longitudinal compressive force $F_0$ close to a critical value at the Euler buckling instability leads to an anharmonic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Aziz Kolkiran , G. S. Agarwal

We address the dynamics of nonclassicality for a quantum system interacting with a noisy fluctuating environment described by a classical stochastic field. As a paradigmatic example, we consider a harmonic oscillator initially prepared in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-27 Jacopo Trapani , Matteo Bina , Sabrina Maniscalco , Matteo G. A. Paris

A quantum phase space with Wannier basis is constructed: (i) classical phase space is divided into Planck cells; (ii) a complete set of Wannier functions are constructed with the combination of Kohn's method and L\"owdin method such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Yuan Fang , Fan Wu , Biao Wu

The driven quantum harmonic oscillator is fundamental to a number of important physical systems. Here, we consider the quantum harmonic oscillator under non-Hermitian, PT-symmetric driving, showing that the resulting set of Wigner-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Samuel Alperin

New families of time-dependent potentials related to the parametric oscillator are introduced. This is achieved by introducing some general time-dependent operators that factorize the appropriate constant of motion (quantum invariant) of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 Kevin Zelaya , Véronique Hussin

At non-zero temperature classical systems exhibit statistical fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities arising from the variation of the system's initial conditions and its interaction with the environment. The fluctuating work, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Rui Sampaio , Samu Suomela , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Janet Anders , Thomas Philbin

The concept of out-of-time-ordered correlation (OTOC) function is treated as a very strong theoretical probe of quantum randomness, using which one can study both chaotic and non-chaotic phenomena in the context of quantum statistical…

We consider a quantum space with rotationally invariant noncommutative algebra of coordinates and momenta. The algebra contains tensors of noncommutativity constructed involving additional coordinates and momenta. In the rotationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Kh. P. Gnatenko

A novel theory of hybrid quantum-classical systems is developed, utilizing the mathematical framework of constrained dynamical systems on the quantum-classical phase space. Both, the quantum and the classical descriptions of the respective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 N. Buric , D. B. Popovic , S. Prvanovic , M. Radonjic

In quantum mechanics courses, students often solve the Schr\"odinger equation for the harmonic oscillator with time-independent parameters. However, time-dependent quantum harmonic oscillators are relevant in modeling several problems as,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Stanley S. Coelho , Lucas Queiroz , Danilo T. Alves

We study the generalized harmonic oscillator which has both the position-dependent mass and the potential depending on the form of mass function in a more general framework. The explicit expressions of the eigenvalue and eigenfunction for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-24 Ju Guo-Xing , Cai Chang-Ying , Ren Zhong-Zhou

In a previous paper a formalism to analyze the dynamical evolution of classical and quantum probability distributions in terms of their moments was presented. Here the application of this formalism to the system of a particle moving on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-19 David Brizuela

Quantum systems can be dynamically controlled using time-periodic external fields, leading to the concept of Floquet engineering, with promising technological applications. Computing Floquet energy spectra is harder than only computing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Benedikt Fauseweh , Jian-Xin Zhu

In this work we study the Wigner functions, which are the quantum analogues of the classical phase space density, and show how a full rigorous semiclassical scheme for all orders of \hbar can be constructed for them without referring to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gregor Veble , Marko Robnik , Valery Romanovski

Unique set of coherent states for the anharmonic oscillator is obtained by requiring i. under the quantum mechanical time evolution a coherent state evolves into another, governed by trajectory in the classical phase space (of a related…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. S. Sharatchandra