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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

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

We show how to represent the state and the evolution of a quantum computer (or any system with an $N$--dimensional Hilbert space) in phase space. For this purpose we use a discrete version of the Wigner function which, for arbitrary $N$, is…

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

A closed expression for the density operator of the damped harmonic oscillator is extracted from the master equation based on the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems. The entropy and effective temperature of the system are subsequently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Isar

We investigate the dynamics of entanglement, uncertainty and mixedness by solving time dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for two-dimensional harmonic oscillator with time dependent frequency and coupling parameter subject to a static…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 Radouan Hab-arrih , Ahmed Jellal , Abdeldjalil Merdaci

In this note we consider high energy eigenfunctions of the harmonic oscillator in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and prove that any invariant measure on the energy surface can be written as a weak limit of eigenfunctions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Elie Studnia

Propagation of the Wigner function is studied on two levels of semiclassical propagation, one based on the van-Vleck propagator, the other on phase-space path integration. Leading quantum corrections to the classical Liouville propagator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Dittrich , Luis Sandoval , Carlos Viviescas

The problem of constructing physically and mathematically well-defined Wigner functions for the canonical pair angle and angular momentum is solved. While a key element for the construction of Wigner functions for the planar phase space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 H. A. Kastrup

We establish the relation of the spin tomogram to the Wigner function on a discrete phase space of qubits. We use the quantizers and dequantizers of the spin tomographic star-product scheme for qubits to derive the expression for the kernel…

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

We consider the applicability of phase space Wannier functions" to electronic structure calculations. These generalized Wannier functions are analogous to localized plane waves and constitute a complete, orthonormal set which is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-07-22 D. J. Sullivan , J. J. Rehr , J. W. Wilkins , K. G. Wilson

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 Moyal equation describes the evolution of the Wigner function of a quantum system in the phase space. The right-hand side of the equation contains an infinite series with coefficients proportional to powers of the Planck constant. There…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 E. E. Perepelkin , B. I. Sadovnikov , N. G. Inozemtseva , E. V. Burlakov , P. V. Afonin

We introduce a numerical method to simulate nonlinear open quantum dynamics of a particle in situations where its state undergoes significant expansion in phase space while generating small quantum features at the phase-space Planck scale.…

The equation of motion for the reduced Wigner function of a system coupled to an external quantum system is presented for the specific case when the external quantum system can be modeled as a set of harmonic oscillators. The result is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-11 Dries Sels , Fons Brosens

A quasi-distribution function in phase space (based on Wigner functions) is used to write down the quantum version of Boltzmann equation (Wigner-Boltzmann transport equation). The relaxation time approximation is show to be a good approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-21 Aldo R. Fernandes Nt

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

We propose a Wigner quasiprobability distribution function for Hamiltonian systems in spaces of constant curvature --in this paper on hyperboloids--, which returns the correct marginals and has the covariance of the Shapiro functions under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Miguel Angel Alonso , George S. Pogosyan , Kurt Bernardo Wolf

The upside-down simple harmonic oscillator system is studied in the contexts of quantum mechanics and classical statistical mechanics. It is shown that in order to study in a simple manner the creation and decay of a physical system by ways…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 Mario Castagnino , Roberto Diener , Luis Lara , Gabriel Puccini

We consider a particle in harmonic oscillator potential, whose position is periodically measured with an instrument of finite precision. We show that the distribution of the measured positions tends to a limiting distribution when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Arnab Acharya , Debapriya Pal , Soumitro Banerjee , Ananda Dasgupta