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A unification of the set of quasiprobability representations using the mathematical theory of frames was recently developed for quantum systems with finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, in which it was proven that such representations require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-18 Christopher Ferrie , Ryan Morris , Joseph Emerson

One of the most prominent quasiprobability functions in quantum mechanics is the Wigner function that gives the right marginal probability functions if integrated over position or momentum. Here we depart from the definition of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 Hector Moya-Cessa

We demonstrate that the Wigner function of a pure quantum state is a wave function in a specially tuned Dirac bra-ket formalism and argue that the Wigner function is in fact a probability amplitude for the quantum particle to be at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Denys I. Bondar , Renan Cabrera , Dmitry V. Zhdanov , Herschel A. Rabitz

In this letter, the number-phase entropic uncertainty relation and the number-phase Wigner function of generalized coherent states associated to a few solvable quantum systems with nondegenerate spectra are studied. We also investigate time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 G. R. Honarasa , M. K. Tavassoly , M. Hatami

We present further progress, in the form of analytical results, on the Wigner entropy conjecture set forth in https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.042211 and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1751-8121/aa852f/meta. Said…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Qipeng Qian , Christos N. Gagatsos

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

In this manuscript, the behavior of the Wigner function of accelerated and non-accelerated two qubit system passing through different noisy channels is discussed. The decoherence of the initial quantum correlation due to the noisy channels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-25 M. Y. Abd-Rabbou , N. Metwally , M. M. A. Ahmed , A. -S. F. Obada

We study the weak values of a quantum observable from the point of view of the Wigner formalism. The main actor is here the cross-Wigner transform of two functions, which is in disguise the cross-ambiguity function familiar from radar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Maurice A. de Gosson , Serge M. de Gosson

We present a diffeomorphism-invariant formulation of differential entropy for Riemannian spaces, providing a fine-grained, coordinate-independent notion of quantum information for continuous variables in physical space. To this end, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Pablo G. Camara

We construct a complete set of Wannier functions which are localized at both given positions and momenta. This allows us to introduce the quantum phase space, onto which a quantum pure state can be mapped unitarily. Using its probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-10 Xizhi Han , Biao Wu

We study the possibility of giving a classical interpretation to quantum projective measurements for a particle described by a pure Gaussian state whose Wigner function is non-negative. We analyze the case of a projective measurement which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Amir Kalev , Ady Mann , Pier A. Mello , Michael Revzen

This article comprises a review of both the quasi-probability representations of infinite-dimensional quantum theory (including the Wigner function) and the more recently defined quasi-probability representations of finite-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-18 Christopher Ferrie

The Wigner distribution function is a quasi-probability distribution. When properly integrated, it provides the correct charge and current densities, but it gives negative probabilities in some points and regions of the phase space.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 E. Colomés , Z. Zhan , X. Oriols

Gaussian state decoherence aspects due to interacting magnetic-like and gravitational fields are quantified through the quantum fidelity and Shannon entropy in the scope of the phase-space representation of elementary quantum systems. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 Jonas F. G. Santos , Alex E. Bernardini

We introduce a quantum phase space representation for the orientation state of extended quantum objects, using the Euler angles and their conjugate momenta as phase space coordinates. It exhibits the same properties as the standard Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Timo Fischer , Clemens Gneiting , Klaus Hornberger

Complex numbers appear in the Hilbert space formulation of quantum mechanics, but not in the formulation in phase space. Quantum symmetries are described by complex, unitary or antiunitary operators defining ray representations in Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. J. Bracken

We study the Wigner function for a quantum system with a discrete, infinite dimensional Hilbert space, such as a spinless particle moving on a one dimensional infinite lattice. We discuss the peculiarities of this scenario and of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-05 Margarida Hinarejos , A. Pérez , Mari-Carmen Bañuls

The conventional Wigner function is inappropriate in a quantum field theory setting because, as a quasiprobability density over phase space, it is not manifestly Lorentz covariant. A manifestly relativistic variant is constructed as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Morgan

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

The original Wigner function provides a way of representing in phase space the quantum states of systems with continuous degrees of freedom. Wigner functions have also been developed for discrete quantum systems, one popular version being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kathleen S. Gibbons , Matthew J. Hoffman , William K. Wootters