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The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability distribution is a fundamental representation for quantum states and has been widely applied in quantum metrology, quantum chaos, weak values in recent years. A quantum state is KD-classical if its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Lin-Yan Cai , Ying-Hui Yang , Zhu-Jun Zheng

Recent years have seen the Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) distribution come to the forefront as a powerful quasi-probability distribution for analysing quantum mechanics. The KD distribution allows tools from statistics and probability theory to be…

We construct and study the Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) representations naturally associated to the Fourier transform of finite abelian groups $G$. We identify all pure KD-positive states and all KD-real observables for these KD representations. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Stephan De Bièvre , Christopher Langrenez , Danylo Radchenko

Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) distribution is a representation of quantum states. Recently, KD distribution has been employed in many scenarios such as quantum metrology, quantum chaos and foundations of quantum theory. KD distribution is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Jianwei Xu

We investigate features of the quasi-joint-probability distribution for finite-state quantum systems, especially the two-state and three-state quantum systems, comparing different types of quasi-joint-probability distributions based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Shun Umekawa , Jaeha Lee , Naomichi Hatano

The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability distribution is known for its role in quantum metrology, thermodynamics, as well as quantum foundations. In this work we classify unitary evolutions that preserve KD positivity. We identify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jędrzej Burkat , Sergii Strelchuk

The question of when the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability serves as the most appropriate description for quantum measurements has remained unresolved, particularly across different measurement strengths. While known to generate anomalous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Bo Zhang , Yusuf Turek

A central problem in quantum information is determining quantum-classical boundaries. A useful notion of classicality is provided by the quasiprobability formulation of quantum theory. In this framework, a state is called classical if it is…

The Wigner-Weyl isomorphism for quantum mechanics on a compact simple Lie group $G$ is developed in detail. Several New features are shown to arise which have no counterparts in the familiar Cartesian case. Notable among these is the notion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Mukunda , G. Marmo , Alessandro Zampini , S. Chaturvedi , R. Simon

The Weyl-Wigner prescription for quantization on Euclidean phase spaces makes essential use of Fourier duality. The extension of this property to more general phase spaces requires the use of Kac algebras, which provide the necessary…

funct-an · Mathematics 2009-10-28 R. Aldrovandi , L. A. Saeger

The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) distribution has recently emerged as a powerful quasiprobability framework with wide-ranging applications in quantum information processing tasks. In this work, we introduce an experimentally motivated criterion for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Sudip Chakrabarty , Bivas Mallick , Saheli Mukherjee , Ananda G. Maity

The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability distribution can describe any quantum state with respect to the eigenbases of two observables $A$ and $B$. KD distributions behave similarly to classical joint probability distributions but can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Christopher Langrenez , David R. M. Arvidsson-Shukur , Stephan De Bièvre

We consider the problem of setting up the Wigner distribution for states of a quantum system whose configuration space is a Lie group. The basic properties of Wigner distributions in the familiar Cartesian case are systematically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 N. Mukunda , Arvind , S. Chaturvedi , R. Simon

Recent work has revealed the central role played by the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability (KDQ) as a tool to properly account for non-classical features in the context of condensed matter physics (scrambling, dynamical phase transitions)…

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 paper aims to explore the inherent connection among Heisenberg groups, quantum Fourier transform and (quasiprobability) distribution functions. Distribution functions for continuous and finite quantum systems are examined first as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Manas K. Patra , Samuel L. Braunstein

A general quantum constraint of the form $C= - \partial_T^2 \otimes B - I\otimes H$ (realized in particular in Loop Quantum Cosmology models) is studied. Group Averaging is applied to define the Hilbert space of solutions and the relational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Wojciech Kaminski , Jerzy Lewandowski , Tomasz Pawlowski

This paper concerns the study of regular Fourier hypergroups through multipliers of their associated Fourier algebras. We establish hypergroup analogues of well-known characterizations of group amenability, introduce a notion of weak…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Mahmood Alaghmandan , Jason Crann

We extend the Wigner-Weyl-Moyal phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics to general curved configuration spaces. The underlying phase space is based on the chosen coordinates of the manifold and their canonically conjugate momenta. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Clemens Gneiting , Timo Fischer , Klaus Hornberger

Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability is a quantum analog of phase space probability of classical statistical mechanics, allowing negative or/and nonreal values. It gives an informationally complete representation of a quantum state. Recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Agung Budiyono , Hermawan K. Dipojono
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