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The choice of mathematical representation when describing physical systems is of great consequence, and this choice is usually determined by the properties of the problem at hand. Here we examine the little-known wave operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Gerard McCaul , Dmitry V. Zhdanov , Denys I. Bondar

It is known that ab initio molecular dynamics based on the electron ground state eigenvalue can be used to approximate quantum observables in the canonical ensemble when the temperature is low compared to the first electron eigenvalue gap.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 Aku Kammonen , Petr Plechac , Mattias Sandberg , Anders Szepessy

The strictly classical propagation of an initial Wigner function, referred to as TWA or LSC-IVR, is considered to provide approximate averages, despite not being a true Wigner function: it does not represent a positive operator. We here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-28 Kelvin Titimbo , Gabriel M. Lando , Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

We study a class of quadratic time-frequency representations that, roughly speaking, are obtained by linear perturbations of the Wigner transform. They satisfy Moyal's formula by default and share many other properties with the Wigner…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-06 Dominik Bayer , Elena Cordero , Karlheinz Gröchenig , S. Ivan Trapasso

We review the Weyl-Wigner formulation of quantum mechanics in phase space. We discuss the concept of Narcowich-Wigner spectrum and use it to state necessary and sufficient conditions for a phase space function to be a Wigner distribution.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nuno Costa Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

In this paper we study the quantum cosmology of homogeneous and isotropic cosmology, via the Weyl-Wigner-Groenewold-Moyal formalism of phase space quantization, with perfect fluid as a matter source. The corresponding quantum cosmology is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-25 M. Rashki , S. Jalalzadeh

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 quantum analog of the joint probability distributions describing a classical stochastic process is introduced. A prescription is given for constructing the quantum distribution associated with a sequence of measurements. For the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. W. Ford , R. F. O'Connell

The applicability of the so-called truncated Wigner approximation (-W) is extended to multitime averages of Heisenberg field operators. This task splits naturally in two. Firstly, what class of multitime averages the -W approximates, and,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-30 B. Berg , L. I. Plimak , A. Polkovnikov , M. K. Olsen , M. Fleischhauer , W. P. Schleich

In designing and optimizing new-generation nanomaterials and related quantum devices, dissipation versus decoherence phenomena are often accounted for via local scattering models, such as relaxation-time and Boltzmann-like schemes. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Rita Claudia Iotti , Fabrizio Dolcini , Fausto Rossi

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

In this paper, we introduce a complete family of parametrized quasi-probability distributions in phase space and their corresponding Weyl quantization maps with the aim to generalize the recently developed Wigner-Weyl formalism within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Jasel Berra-Montiel , Alberto Molgado

This work presents a selective review of results concerning the mathematical interface between the classical and quantum aspects encountered in problems such as the nuclear mean-field dynamics or quantum Brownian motion. It is shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 M. Grigorescu

We consider the quantum mechanical equivalence of the Seiberg-Witten map in the context of the Weyl-Wigner-Groenewold-Moyal phase-space formalism in order to construct a quantum mechanics over noncommutative Heisenberg algebras. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Marcos Rosenbaum , J. David Vergara

The coherence properties of the classical waves are discussed in terms of the Cauchy problem for the wave equation, and of a discrete representation by an ensemble of Hamiltonian systems. Wave quanta are related to specific "action fields",…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 M. Grigorescu

In this paper we study the semiclassical behavior of quantum states acting on the C*-algebra of canonical commutation relations, from a general perspective. The aim is to provide a unified and flexible approach to the semiclassical analysis…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Marco Falconi

We study continuous variable systems, in which quantum and classical degrees of freedom are combined and treated on the same footing. Thus all systems, including the inputs or outputs to a channel, may be quantum-classical hybrids. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Lars Dammeier , Reinhard F. Werner

Bayes' rule connects forward and reverse processes in classical probability theory, and its quantum analogue has been discussed in terms of the Petz (transpose) map. For quantum dynamics governed by the Lindblad equation, the corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Ryota Nasu , Gota Tanaka , Asato Tsuchiya

The emergence of classical behavior from quantum mechanics as Planck's constant $\hbar$ approaches zero remains a fundamental challenge in physics [1-3]. This paper introduces a novel approach employing deep neural networks to directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Kamran Majid

The von Neumann trace form of quantum statistical mechanics is transformed to an integral over classical phase space. Formally exact expressions for the resultant position-momentum commutation function are given. A loop expansion for wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Phil Attard