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The finite square potential well is a staple problem in introductory quantum mechanics. There is an extensive literature on the determination of the allowed energies, which requires the solution of a transcendental equation by numerical,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Nivaldo A. Lemos

The Wigner function is a well-known phase space distribution function with many applications in quantum mechanics. In this article, we consider an open quantum system consisting of a non-relativistic single particle interacting with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Nick Huggett , Christian Käding , Mario Pitschmann , James Read

The short time dynamics of a quantum Brownian particle in a harmonic potential is studied in the phase space. An exact non-Markovian analytic approach to calculate the time evolution of the Wigner function is presented. The dynamics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Sabrina Maniscalco

In this paper, the ground state Wigner function of a many-body system is explored theoretically and numerically. First, an eigenvalue problem for Wigner function is derived based on the energy operator of the system. The validity of finding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Hongfei Zhan , Zhenning Cai , Guanghui Hu

We consider a quantum device contained in an interval in the context of the Weyl-Wigner formalism. This approach was originally suggested by Frensley, and is known to be plagued with several problems, such as non-physical and non-unique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-21 Nuno Costa Dias , João Nuno Prata

We propose a numerical method to solve the Wigner equation in quantum systems of spinless, non-relativistic particles. The method uses a spectral decomposition into $L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$ basis functions in momentum-space to obtain a system of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Oliver Furtmaier , Sauro Succi , Miller Mendoza

Classical molecular dynamics (MD) is a well established and powerful tool in various fields of science, e.g. chemistry, plasma physics, cluster physics and condensed matter physics. Objects of investigation are few-body systems and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-03 Vladimir Filinov , Michael Bonitz , Alexei Filinov , Volodymyr Golubnychiy

A detailed study is presented of the relativistic Wigner function for a quantum spinless particle evolving in time according to the Salpeter equation.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 K. Kowalski , J. Rembielinski

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

In this work the evolution of a wavefunction in an infinite potential well with time dependent boundaries is investigated. Previous methods for wells with walls moving at a constant velocity are summarised. These methods are extended to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Kieran Cooney

In deformation quantization (a.k.a. the Wigner-Weyl-Moyal formulation of quantum mechanics), we consider a single quantum particle moving freely in one dimension, except for the presence of one infinite potential wall. Dias and Prata…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergei Kryukov , Mark A. Walton

We develop a method of simulating the full quantum field dynamics of multi-mode multi-component Bose-Einstein condensates in a trap. We use the truncated Wigner representation to obtain a probabilistic theory that can be sampled. This…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-24 Bogdan Opanchuk , Peter D. Drummond

The gauge invariant electromagnetic Wigner equation is taken as the basis for a fluid-like system describing quantum plasmas, derived from the moments of the gauge invariant Wigner function. The use of the standard, gauge dependent Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Haas , J. Zamanian , M. Marklund , G. Brodin

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

Wigner-positive quantum states have the peculiarity to admit a Wigner function that is a genuine probability distribution over phase space. The Shannon differential entropy of the Wigner function of such states -- called Wigner entropy for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Zacharie Van Herstraeten , Nicolas J. Cerf

Within the framework of fractional quantum mechanics, an exact solution has been found for the energy spectrum of a quantum particle confined in a quantum well - a symmetric one-dimensional finite potential well. A simple graphical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Nick Laskin

Quantum particle bound in an infinite, one-dimensional square potential well is one of the problems in Quantum Mechanics (QM) that most of the textbooks start from. There, calculating an allowed energy spectrum for an arbitrary wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Anna Lipniacka , Bertrand Martin Dit Latour

This article examines the suggestion made in Ref. [EPL, 115 (2016) 60001] that a solution to a particle in an infinite spherical well model, if it is square-integrable, is a physically valid solution, even if at the precise location of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Jorge Munzenmayer , Derek Frydel

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 study time evolution of Wigner function of an initially interacting one-dimensional quantum gas following the switch-off of the interactions. For the scenario where at $t=0$ the interactions are suddenly suppressed, we derive a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-15 Kamel Bencheikh , Luis M. Nieto