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In the context of phase-space quantization, matrix elements and observables result from integration of c-number functions over phase space, with Wigner functions serving as the quasi-probability measure. The complete sets of Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-02 Thomas Curtright , Tsuneo Uematsu , Cosmas Zachos

We analyze and further develop a new method to represent the quantum state of a system of $n$ qubits in a phase space grid of $N\times N$ points (where $N=2^n$). The method, which was recently proposed by Wootters and co--workers (Gibbons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juan Pablo Paz , Augusto Jose Roncaglia , Marcos Saraceno

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

We perform a systematic study of the discrete time Quantum Walk on one dimension using Wigner functions, which are generalized to include the chirality (or coin) degree of freedom. In particular, we analyze the evolution of the negative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-06 M. Hinarejos , M. C. Banuls , A. Perez

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

In this note we generalize the well-known Wigner's unitary-anti\-unitary theorem. For $X$ and $Y$ smooth normed spaces and $f:X\to Y$ a surjective mapping such that $|[f(x),f(y)]|=|[x,y]|$, $x,y\in X$, where $[\cdot,\cdot]$ is the unique…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-11 Dijana Ilišević , Aleksej Turnšek

We extend the wide-sense spatial stationarity concept of coherence holography in the regime of phase-space using the wigner distribution function. We focus mainly on the incoherent light source and the Fourier and Fresnel propagation…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-10 Rishabh Kumar Bhalavi , Rakesh Kumar Singh

The mixed density operator for coarsegrained eigenlevels of a static Hamiltonian is represented in phase space by the spectral Wigner function, which has its peak on the corresponding classical energy shell. The action of trajectory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

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

We present two results on multiqubit Werner states, defined to be those states that are invariant under the collective action of any given single-qubit unitary that acts simultaneously on all the qubits. Motivated by the desire to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 David W. Lyons , Cristina Mullican , Adam Rilatt , Jack D. Putnam

Density matrices and Discrete Wigner Functions are equally valid representations of multiqubit quantum states. For density matrices, the partial trace operation is used to obtain the quantum state of subsystems, but an analogous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 K. Srinivasan , G. Raghavan

The Wigner function is known to evolve classically under the exclusive action of a quadratic hamiltonian. If the system does interact with the environment through Lindblad operators that are linear functions of position and momentum, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Brodier , A. M. Ozorio de Almeida

The quantum Fourier transform for discrete variable (dvQFT) is an efficient algorithm for several applications. It is usually considered for the processing of quantum bits (qubits) and its efficient implementation is obtained with two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Gianfranco Cariolaro , Edi Ruffa , Amir Mohammad Yaghoobianzadeh , Jawad A. Salehi

This article outlines a novel interpretation of quantum theory: the Q-based interpretation. The core idea underlying this interpretation, recently suggested for quantum field theories by Drummond and Reid [2020], is to interpret the phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Simon Friederich

The framework of Wigner functions for the canonical pair angle and orbital angular momentum, derived and analyzed in 2 recent papers [H. A. Kastrup, Phys.Rev. A 94, 062113(2016) and Phys.Rev. A 95, 052111(2017)] is applied to elementary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-16 H. A. Kastrup

We give a definition for the Wigner function for quantum mechanics on the Bohr compactification of the real line and prove a number of simple consequences of this definition. We then discuss how this formalism can be applied to loop quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christopher J. Fewster , Hanno Sahlmann

The Wigner function plays a central role in QCD as a phase space object encoding correlations among quarks, antiquarks, and gluons, yet its interpretation remains subtle due to its quasiprobabilistic nature and possible negativity. Recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Chueng-Ryong Ji , Daniel W. Piasecki

We study a transform, inspired by coherent state transforms, from the Hilbert space of Clifford algebra valued square integrable functions $L^2({\mathbb R}^m,dx)\otimes {\mathbb C}_{m}$ to a Hilbert space of solutions of the Weyl equation…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 José Mourão , João P. Nunes , Tao Qian

A finite-dimensional pseudo-unitary framework is set up for describing the dynamics of free elementary particles in a purely relativistic quantum mechanical way. States of any individual particles or antiparticles are defined as suitably…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Jorge G. Cardoso

We introduce a one-parameter family of transforms, $U^t_{(m)}$, $t>0$, from the Hilbert space of Clifford algebra valued square integrable functions on the $m$--dimensional sphere, $L^2(S^{m},d\sigma_{m})\otimes \mathbb{C}_{m+1}$, to the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Pei Dang , José Mourão , João P. Nunes , Tao Qian