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We consider a multichannel wire with a disordered region of length $L$ and a reflecting boundary. The reflection of a wave of frequency $\omega$ is described by the scattering matrix $\mathcal{S}(\omega)$, encoding the probability…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Aurélien Grabsch , Christophe Texier

We study the covariance property of quadratic time-frequency distributions with respect to the action of the extended symplectic group. We show how covariance is related, and in fact in competition, with the possibility of damping the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Elena Cordero , Maurice de Gosson , Monika Doerfler , Fabio Nicola

For many years, quasicrystals were observed only as solid-state metallic alloys, yet current research is now actively exploring their formation in a variety of soft materials, including systems of macromolecules, nanoparticles and colloids.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-05-02 Samuel Savitz , Mehrtash Babadi , Ron Lifshitz

This work considers uncertainty relations on time frequency distributions from a signal processing viewpoint. An uncertainty relation on the marginalizable time frequency distributions is given. A result from quantum mechanics is used on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Eren Berk Kama , Mustafa Kuzuoğlu

We study ensembles of random symmetric matrices whose entries exhibit certain correlations. Examples are distributions of Curie-Weiss-type. We provide a criterion on the correlations ensuring the validity of Wigner's semicircle law for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Winfried Hochstättler , Werner Kirsch , Simone Warzel

We present a new quasi-probability distribution function for ensembles of spin-half particles or qubits that has many properties in common with Wigner's original function for systems of continuous variables. We show that this function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-04 Derek Harland , M. J. Everitt , Kae Nemoto , T. Tilma , T. P. Spiller

Husimi distributions and Wigner distributions are well-known quasi-probability distributions which appear in several contexts. In this paper, we show some remarkable aspects of these distribution functions related to geometric structures of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-28 Ryo Harada

We study the phase-space concentration of the so-called generalized metaplectic operators whose main examples are Schr\"odinger equations with bounded perturbations. To reach this goal, we perform a so-called $\mathcal{A}$-Wigner analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Elena Cordero , Gianluca Giacchi , Luigi Rodino

The Wigner distribution is a milestone of Time-frequency Analysis. In order to cope with its drawbacks while preserving the desirable features that made it so popular, several kind of modifications have been proposed. This contributions…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-05 Elena Cordero , S. Ivan Trapasso

Wigner phase space quasi-probability distribution function is a Fourier transform related to a given quantum mechanical wave function. It is shown that for the wave functions of type $\psi (q)=e^{-aq^2}\phi (q)$, the Wigner function can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-01-02 A. Tegmen

Every set $\Lambda\subset R$ such that the sum of $\delta$-measures sitting at the points of $\Lambda$ is a Fourier quasicrystal, is the zero set of an exponential polynomial with imaginary frequencies.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Alexander Olevskii , Alexander Ulanovskii

Quasicrystals are long-range ordered and yet non-periodic. This interplay results in a wealth of intriguing physical phenomena, such as the inheritance of topological properties from higher dimensions, and the presence of non-trivial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-04 Konrad Viebahn , Matteo Sbroscia , Edward Carter , Jr-Chiun Yu , Ulrich Schneider

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

We calculate quark Wigner distributions using the light-front wave functions in a dressed quark model. In this model, a proton target is replaced by a simplified spin-1/2 state, namely a quark dressed with a gluon. We calculate the Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Jai More , Asmita Mukherjee , Sreeraj Nair

The Wigner spacing distribution has a long and illustrious history in nuclear physics and in the quantum mechanics of classically chaotic systems. In this paper, a novel connection between the Wigner distribution and 2D classical mechanics…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-03 Jamal Sakhr

Hyperuniform systems, which include crystals, quasicrystals and special disordered systems, have attracted considerable recent attention, but rigorous analyses of the hyperuniformity of quasicrystals have been lacking because the support of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-01 Erdal C. Oğuz , Joshua E. S. Socolar , Paul J. Steinhardt , Salvatore Torquato

Metaplectic Wigner distributions were recently investigated as natural generalizations of the classical Wigner distribution, and provide a wide class of time-frequency representations that exploits the structure of the symplectic group.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-24 Gianluca Giacchi

We develop a general formalism for the quantum kinetics of chiral fermions in a background electromagnetic field based on a semiclassical expansion of covariant Wigner functions in the Planck constant $\hbar$. We demonstrate to any order of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-12 Jian-Hua Gao , Zuo-Tang Liang , Qun Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

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

Metaplectic Wigner distributions generalize the most popular time-frequency representations, such as the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) and $\tau$-Wigner distributions, using metaplectic operators. However, in order for a metaplectic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Elena Cordero , Gianluca Giacchi