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We measure complete and continuous Wigner functions of a two-level cesium atom in both a nearly pure state and highly mixed states. We apply the method [T. Tilma et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 180401 (2016)] of strictly constructing…

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This work covers electron positron pair production in spatially homogeneous electric (and magnetic) fields. Different field configurations are looked at in order to study various phenomena including multiphoton pair production,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-01-19 Alexander Blinne

A new non-perturbative approach to quantum theory in curved spacetime and to quantum gravity, based on a generalisation of the Wigner equation, is proposed. Our definition for a Wigner equation differs from what have otherwise been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Frank Antonsen

We consider the scattering of fermions off antifermions with spin 1/2 and 3/2. Starting from helicity partial-wave scattering amplitudes we derive transformations that eliminate all kinematical constraints. Such amplitudes are expected to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 S. Stoica , M. F. M. Lutz , O. Scholten

We study fermions in two dimensions interacting via a long-ranged 1/r potential for small particle separations and a short-ranged 1/r^3 potential for larger separations in comparison to a length scale \xi. We compute the energy of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Benjamin M. Fregoso , C. A. R. Sá de Melo

We study $N$ interacting massless Dirac fermions confined in a two-dimensional quantum dot. Physical realizations of this problem include a graphene monolayer and the surface state of a strong topological insulator. We consider both a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-15 Tomi Paananen , Reinhold Egger , Heinz Siedentop

We obtain the accuracy limit for estimating the expectation value of the position of a relativistic particle for an observer moving along one direction at a constant velocity. We use a specific model of a relativistic spin-1/2 particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Shin Funada , Jun Suzuki

The Wigner function $W_N({\bf x}, {\bf p})$ is a useful quantity to characterize the quantum fluctuations of an $N$-body system in its phase space. Here we study $W_N({\bf x}, {\bf p})$ for $N$ noninteracting spinless fermions in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-28 Benjamin De Bruyne , David S. Dean , Pierre Le Doussal , Satya N. Majumdar , Gregory Schehr

The Vlasov type quantum kinetic equation for deconfined quarks in strong quasi-classical gluon field is derived in the covariant single-time formalism. The equations system for the Wigner function components is obtained as a result of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Prozorkevich , S. A. Smolyansky , S. V. Ilyin

NMR measurements of the electron spin polarization have been performed on a 2D electron system at and around half-filled lowest Landau level. Comparing the magnetic field and the temperature dependence of the spin polarization to models of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 N. Freytag , M. Horvatić , C. Berthier , M. Shayegan , L. P. Lévy

Spin-1/2 particles can be used to study inertial and gravitational effects by means of interferometers, particle accelerators, and ultimately quantum systems. These studies require, in general, knowledge of the Hamiltonian and of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Singh , G. Papini

This paper presents the derivation of a kinetic-balance condition for explicitly correlated basis functions employed in semi-classical relativistic calculations. Such a condition is important to ensure variational stability in algorithms…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 Benjamin Simmen , Edit Mátyus , Markus Reiher

The quantization of a massive spin $1/2$ field that satisfies the Klein-Gordon equation is studied. The framework is consistent, provided it is formulated as a pseudo-hermitian quantum field theory by the redefinition of the field dual and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-04 Rodolfo Ferro-Hernández , Julio Olmos , Eduardo Peinado , Carlos A. Vaquera-Araujo

We study the effect of a small fermion mass in the formulation of the on-shell effective field theory (OSEFT). This is our starting point to derive small mass corrections to the chiral kinetic theory. In the massless case, only four Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 Cristina Manuel , Juan M. Torres-Rincon

There are constructed exact solutions of the quantum-mechanical Dirac equation for a spin S=1/2 particle in the space of constant positive curvature, spherical Riemann space, in presence of an external magnetic field, analogue of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 E. M. Ovsiyuk , V. V. Kisel , V. M. Red'kov

We study the field dependence of the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg model on the square lattice by means of exact diagonalizations. In a first part, we calculate the spin-wave velocity, the spin-stiffness, and the magnetic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-16 Andreas Luscher , Andreas Laeuchli

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 concept of phase space amplitudes for systems with continuous degrees of freedom is generalized to finite-dimensional spin systems. Complex amplitudes are obtained on both a sphere and a finite lattice, in each case enabling a more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 P Watson , A J Bracken

We proceed to derive equations for the symmetric tensor of the second rank on the basis of the Bargmann-Wigner formalism in a straightforward way. The symmetric multispinor of the fourth rank is used. It is constructed out of the Dirac…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valeri V. Dvoeglazov

On the basis of analytic solutions of Schrodinger and Pauli equations for a uniform magnetic field and a single attractive $\delta({\bf r})$-potential the equations for the bound one-active electron states are discussed. It is vary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 V. N. Rodionov