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In this paper we generalize the concept of Wigner function in the case of quantum mechanics with a minimum length scale arising due to the application of a generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). We present the phase space formulation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-28 Prathamesh Yeole , Vipul Kumar , Kaushik Bhattacharya

We develop the covariant phase space formulation of Weyl-transverse gravity (WTG) in the presence of general timelike and spacelike boundaries. WTG is classically equivalent to General Relativity (GR) but possesses a reduced gauge symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-23 Gloria Odak , Salvatore Ribisi

We consider the construction of gauge theories of gravity, focussing in particular on the extension of local Poincar\'e invariance to include invariance under local changes of scale. We work exclusively in terms of finite transformations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-30 Anthony Lasenby , Michael Hobson

The wave equation and equations of covariantly-constant vector fields (CCVF) in spaces with Weyl nonmetricity turn out to possess, in addition to the canonical conformal-gauge, a gauge invariance of another type. On a Minkowski metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-25 Vladimir V. Kassandrov , Joseph A. Rizcallah

We derive a quantum kinetic model describing the dynamics of graphene electrons in phase space based on the Wigner--Weyl formalism. To take into account the quantum nature of the carriers, we make use of the quantum Liouville equation for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 J. L. Figueiredo , J. P. S. Bizarro , H. Terças

Recently the Wigner - Weyl formalism has been applied to the lattice models of solid state physics and to the lattice regularized quantum field theory. This allows to demonstrate that the electric current of intrinsic Anomalous Quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 M. A. Zubkov , Xi Wu

A gauge invariant quantization in a closed integral form is developed over a linear phase space endowed with an inhomogeneous Faraday electromagnetic tensor. An analog of the Groenewold product formula (corresponding to Weyl ordering) is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. V. Karasev , T. A. Osborn

The Schrodinger equation is incomplete, inherently unable to explain the collapse of the wavefunction caused by measurement; a fundamental issue known as the quantum measurement problem. Quantum mechanics is generally constrained by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Kyoung Yeon Kim

This extended write-up of a talk gives an introductory survey of mathematical problems of the quantization of gauge systems. Using the Schwinger model as an exactly tractable but nontrivial example which exhibits general features of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Andreas U. Schmidt

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…

This paper presents the detailed, standard treatment of a simple, gauge invariant action for Weyl and Weyl-like Cartan geometries outlined in a previous paper. In addition to the familiar scalar curvature squared and Maxwell terms, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-26 J. E. Rankin

Quantum mechanics has been formulated in phase space, with the Wigner function as the representative of the quantum density operator, and classical mechanics has been formulated in Hilbert space, with the Groenewold operator as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 A. J. Bracken , J. G. Wood

A quantum state can be written in phase space, but the resulting object is not generally the probability density of a positive stochastic process on ordinary phase space. We spell this out for Wigner dynamics. If a positive phase-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Surachate Limkumnerd , Panat Phanthaphanitkul

We consider quantum phase-space dynamics using Wigner's representation of quantum mechanics. We stress the usefulness of the integral form for the description of Wigner's phase-space current~$\bm J$ as an alternative to the popular Moyal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Dimitris Kakofengitis , Maxime Oliva , Ole Steuernagel

We review the main features of the Weyl-Wigner formulation of noncommutative quantum mechanics. In particular, we present a $\star$-product and a Moyal bracket suitable for this theory as well as the concept of noncommutative Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bastos , O. Bertolami , N. C. Dias , J. N. Prata

The use of the Wigner function for the study of quantum transport in open systems present severe criticisms. Some of the problems arise from the assumption of infinite coherence length of the electron dynamics outside the system of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-24 Carlo Jacoboni , Paolo Bordone

A gauge-invariant wave equation for the dynamics of hybrid quantum-classical systems is formulated by combining the variational setting of Lagrangian paths in continuum theories with Koopman wavefunctions in classical mechanics. We identify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 François Gay-Balmaz , Cesare Tronci

A comparison is given between the Newtonian and Einsteinian frames of gravitation. From this it is shown that there exist a weak connection to gravitation and electromagnetism. This connection is then studied more thoroughly with the Weyl…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. F. Halerewicz

A gauge theory with an indefinite metric without negative probabilities is given by extending quantum mechanics, where a general metric is introduced, and the invariance under the general linear transformation is imposed on the space of…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Kimihide Nishimura

The dynamics of the torsion field is analyzed in the framework of the Covariant Canonical Gauge Theory of Gravity (CCGG), a De~Donder-Weyl Hamiltonian formulation of gauge gravity. The action is quadratic in both, the torsion and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-29 Vladimir Denk , David Vasak , Johannes Kirsch