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W consider the problem of testing if a given matrix in the Hilbert space formulation of quantum mechanics or a function in the phase space formulation of quantum theory represent a quantum state. We propose several practical criteria to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Tosiek , P. Brzykcy

In this thesis, we construct an approximate series solution of the Wigner equation in terms of Airy functions, which are semiclassically concentrated on certain Lagrangian curves in two-dimensional phase space. These curves are defined by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Konstantina-Stavroula Giannopoulou

We investigate the Weyl space-time extension of general relativity (GR) for studying the FLRW cosmology through focusing and defocusing of the geodesic congruences. We have derived the equations of evolution for expansion, shear and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-06 Radouane Gannouji , Hemwati Nandan , Naresh Dadhich

We compute the Krylov Complexity of a light operator $\mathcal{O}_L$ in an eigenstate of a $2d$ CFT at large central charge $c$. The eigenstate corresponds to a primary operator $\mathcal{O}_H$ under the state-operator correspondence. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Arnab Kundu , Vinay Malvimat , Ritam Sinha

The formalism of generalized Wigner transformations developped in a previous paper, is applied to kinetic equations of the Lindblad type for quantum harmonic oscillator models. It is first applied to an oscillator coupled to an equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tzanakis , A. P. Grecos , P. Hatjimanolaki

Quantum computers provide new avenues to access ground and excited state properties of systems otherwise difficult to simulate on classical hardware. New approaches using subspaces generated by real-time evolution have shown efficiency in…

In this paper, we address the phase space formulation of the Jaynes-Cummings model through the explicit construction of the full Wigner function for a hybrid bipartite quantum system composed of a two-level atom and a quantized coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Mar Sanchez-Cordova , Jasel Berra-Montiel , Alberto Molgado

The Krylov subspace projection approach is a well-established tool for the reduced order modeling of dynamical systems in the time domain. In this paper, we address the main issues obstructing the application of this powerful approach to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-16 Vladimir Druskin , Rob Remis

The growth of simple operators is essential for the emergence of chaotic dynamics and quantum thermalization. Recent studies have proposed different measures, including the out-of-time-order correlator and Krylov complexity. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Liangyu Chen , Baoyuan Mu , Huajia Wang , Pengfei Zhang

We aim at extending the definition of the Weyl calculus to an infinite dimensional setting, by replacing the phase space $ \mathbb{R}^{2n}$ by $B^2$, where $(i,H,B)$ is an abstract Wiener space. A first approach is to generalize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-05 Laurent Amour , Lisette Jager , Jean Nourrigat

The Gouy phase is essential for accurately describing various wave phenomena, ranging from classical electromagnetic waves to matter waves and quantum optics. In this work, we employ phase-space methods based on the cross-Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Lucas S. Marinho , Pedro R. Dieguez , Carlos H. S. Vieira , Irismar G. da Paz

We develop a path integral representation for the dynamics of quantum systems with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, formulated entirely within a discrete phase space. Starting from the discrete Wigner function defined on $\mathbb{Z}_d…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Leonardo A. Pachon , Andres F. Gomez

Krylov complexity is a novel approach to study how an operator spreads over a specific basis. Recently, it has been stated that this quantity has a long-time saturation that depends on the amount of chaos in the system. Since this quantity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-08 Bernardo L. Español , Diego A. Wisniacki

Continuing the previous initiatives arXiv: 2207.05347 and arXiv: 2212.06180, we pursue the exploration of operator growth and Krylov complexity in dissipative open quantum systems. In this paper, we resort to the bi-Lanczos algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Aranya Bhattacharya , Pratik Nandy , Pingal Pratyush Nath , Himanshu Sahu

In quantum mechanics, systems can be described in phase space in terms of the Wigner function and the star-product operation. Quantum characteristics, which appear in the Heisenberg picture as the Weyl's symbols of operators of canonical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 M. I. Krivoruchenko , C. Fuchs , Amand Faessler

We develop computational tools necessary to extend the application of Krylov complexity beyond the simple Hamiltonian systems considered thus far in the literature. As a first step toward this broader goal, we show how the Lanczos algorithm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-29 S. Shajidul Haque , Jeff Murugan , Mpho Tladi , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

Projection operators arise naturally as one-particle density operators associated to Slater determinants in fields such as quantum mechanics and the study of determinantal processes. In the context of the semiclassical approximation of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Laurent Lafleche

A generalization of the Weyl law to systems with a sharply divided mixed phase space is proposed. The ansatz is composed of the usual Weyl term which counts the number of states in regular islands and a term associated with sticky regions…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-04-09 Akihiro Ishii , Akira Akaishi , Akira Shudo , Henning Schomerus

A classical theorem of Stone and von Neumann says that the Schr\"{o}dinger representation is, up to unitary equivalences, the only irreducible representation of the Heisenberg group on the Hilbert space of square-integrable functions on…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Maurice A. De Gosson

The Wigner eigenfunctions of a free quantum particle propagating on a plane are derived. Two possibilities are analysed. Firstly, the particle of given energy and angular momentum is discussed. In that case, a special choice of coordinates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Hubert Jóźwiak , Jaromir Tosiek