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We propose a new formulation of the Wigner transport equation with infinite correlation length. Since the maximum correlation length is not limited to a finite value, there is no uncertainty in the simulation results owing to the finite…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Kyoung Yeon Kim , Byung-Gook Park

We developed a gauge-covariant formulation of the non-equilibrium Green function method for the dynamical and/or non-uniform electromagnetic field by means of the deformational quantization method. Such a formulation is realized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 N. Sugimoto , S. Onoda , N. Nagaosa

The asymptotic analysis of a linear high-field Wigner-BGK equation is developped by a modified Chapman-Enskog procedure. By an expansion of the unknown Wigner function in powers of the Knudsen number $\epsilon$, evolution equations are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chiara Manzini , Giovanni Frosali

We present a Wigner function-based approach for the particle density evolution in fermionic and bosonic open quantum many-body systems, including the effects of dephasing. In particular, we focus on chains of non-interacting particles…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-31 Michele Coppola , Gabriel T. Landi , Dragi Karevski

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

In this review, we detail the commonality of mathematical intuitions that underlie three numerical methods used for the quantitative description of electron swarms propagating in a gas under the effect of externally applied electric and/or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-02 Luca Vialetto , Hirotake Sugawara , Savino Longo

The trace of an arbitrary product of quantum operators with the density operator is rendered as a multiple phase space integral of the product of their Weyl symbols with the Wigner function. Interspersing the factors with various evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida , Olivier Brodier

We generalize Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics by the minimization of a finite action functional defined for variational trajectories that are required to merge continuously into given past and future boundary segments. We prove that the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 Jayme De Luca

In this work, we study the relativistic quantum kinetic equations in 2+1 dimensions from Wigner function formalism by carrying out a systematic semi-classical expansion up to $\hbar$ order. The derived equations allow us to explore…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-07 Anping Huang , Shuzhe Shi , Xianglei Zhu , Lianyi He , Jinfeng Liao , Pengfei Zhuang

Two-frequency Wigner distribution is introduced to capture the asymptotic behavior of the space-frequency correlation of paraxial waves in the radiative transfer limits. The scaling limits give rises to deterministic transport-like…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Albert C. Fannjiang

The transport of energetic particles in a spatially varying magnetic field is described by the focused transport equation. In the past two versions of this equation were investigated. The more commonly used standard form described a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 B. Klippenstein , A. Shalchi

The new numerical approach for consideration of quantum dynamics and calculations of the average values of quantum operators and time correlation functions in the Wigner representation of quantum statistical mechanics has been developed.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Filinov , Yu. Lozovik , A. Filinov , I. Zacharov , A. Oparin

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

We study the classical limit of quantum mechanics on graphs by introducing a Wigner function for graphs. The classical dynamics is compared to the quantum dynamics obtained from the propagator. In particular we consider extended open graphs…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Felipe Barra , Pierre Gaspard

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

We study the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 fermions in electromagnetic fields. Dirac form kinetic equation and Klein-Gordon form kinetic equation are obtained for the Wigner function, which are derived from the Dirac equation. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Xin-Li Sheng

We study two-dimensional quantum dots using the variational quantum Monte Carlo technique in the weak-confinement limit where the system approaches the Wigner molecule, i.e., the classical solution of point charges in an external potential.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Harju , S. Siljamäki , R. M. Nieminen

In this paper, two things are done. (i) Using cohomological techniques, we explore the consistent deformations of linearized conformal gravity in 4 dimensions. We show that the only possibility involving no more than 4 derivatives of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 N. Boulanger , M. Henneaux

This paper is concerned with the Wigner-Poisson-Fokker-Planck system, a kinetic evolution equation for an open quantum system with a non-linear Hartree potential. Existence, uniqueness and regularity of global solutions to the Cauchy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anton Arnold , Elidon Dhamo , Chiara Manzini

By making decomposition of the Wigner function simultaneously in both the spinor and the isospin spaces we derive a set of kinetic equations for the quark distribution functions and the spin densities. A detailed analysis of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Wojciech Florkowski