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We propose the Wigner separability entropy as a measure of complexity of a quantum state. This quantity measures the number of terms that effectively contribute to the Schmidt decomposition of the Wigner function with respect to a chosen…

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A semiclassical approximation for an evolving density operator, driven by a "closed" hamiltonian operator and "open" markovian Lindblad operators, is obtained. The theory is based on the chord function, i.e. the Fourier transform of the…

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The purpose of this paper is to expose and investigate natural phase-space formulations of two longstanding problems in the restriction theory of the Fourier transform. These problems, often referred to as the Stein and Mizohata--Takeuchi…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Jonathan Bennett , Susana Gutierrez , Shohei Nakamura , Itamar Oliveira

We present a review of recent developments of simulations of the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations using a Fourier transform method in velocity space. In this method, the distribution functions for electrons and ions are Fourier…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Bengt Eliasson

A finite Hilbert space can be associated to a periodic phase space, that is, a torus. A finite subgroup of operators corresponding to reflections and translations on the torus form respectively the basis for the discrete Weyl…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Marcos Saraceno , Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

Representations of quantum state vectors by complex phase space amplitudes, complementing the description of the density operator by the Wigner function, have been defined by applying the Weyl-Wigner transform to dyadic operators, linear in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. J. Bracken , P. Watson

In this paper we generalize the concept of Wigner function in the case of quantum mechanics with a minimum length scale arising due to the application of a generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). We present the phase space formulation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-28 Prathamesh Yeole , Vipul Kumar , Kaushik Bhattacharya

We review the main features of the Weyl-Wigner formulation of noncommutative quantum mechanics. In particular, we present a $\star$-product and a Moyal bracket suitable for this theory as well as the concept of noncommutative Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Bastos , O. Bertolami , N. C. Dias , J. N. Prata

We extend the CV conjecture to quantum states of two-mode Hermitian systems using the framework of information geometry. Specifically, we conjecture that the Krylov complexity of a quantum state equals the volume of the Fubini-Study metric.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Ke-Hong Zhai , Lei-Hua Liu , Hai-Qing Zhang

We present a semiclassical expansion of the smooth part of the density of states in potentials with some form of symmetry. The density of states of each irreducible representation is separately evaluated using the Wigner transforms of the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Lauritzen , N. D. Whelan

Based on the dispersion chain of the Vlasov equations, the paper considers the construction of a new chain of equations of quantum mechanics of high kinematical values. The proposed approach can be applied to consideration of classical and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 E. E. Perepelkin , B. I. Sadovnikov , N. G. Inozemtseva , A. A. Korepanova

It has been argued that the existence of time crystals requires a spontaneous breakdown of the continuous time translation symmetry so to account for the unexpected non-stationary behavior of quantum observables in the ground state. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Alex E. Bernardini , Orfeu Bertolami

We derive a semiclassical approximation for the evolution generated by the Lindblad equation as a generalization of complex WKB theory. Linear coupling to the environment is assumed, but the Hamiltonian can be a general function of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 O. Brodier , A. M. Ozorio de Almeida

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

We first introduce the Wigner-Weyl-Moyal formalism for a theory whose phase-space is an arbitrary Lie algebra. We also generalize to quantum Lie algebras and to supersymmetric theories. It turns out that the non-commutativity leads to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Antonsen

Over decades, the time evolution of Wigner functions along classical Hamiltonian flows has been used for approximating key signatures of molecular quantum systems. Such approximations are for example the Wigner phase space method, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Wolfgang Gaim , Caroline Lasser

In this work, we consider fixed $1/2$ spin particles interacting with the quantized radiation field in the context of quantum electrodynamics (QED). We investigate the time evolution operator in studying the reduced propagator (interaction…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-28 L. Amour , R. Lascar , J. Nourrigat

We study operator spreading in many-body quantum systems by its potential to generate an informationally complete measurement record in quantum tomography. We adopt continuous weak measurement tomography for this purpose. We generate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Abinash Sahu , Naga Dileep Varikuti , Bishal Kumar Das , Vaibhav Madhok

For classical canonical transformations, one can, using the Wigner transformation, pass from their representation in Hilbert space to a kernel in phase space. In this paper it will be discussed how the time-dependence of the uncertainties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-19 Dieter Schuch , Marcos Moshinsky

Quantum machine learning (QML) seeks to exploit the intrinsic properties of quantum mechanical systems, including superposition, coherence, and quantum entanglement for classical data processing. However, due to the exponential growth of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Timothy Heightman , Edward Jiang , Ruth Mora-Soto , Maciej Lewenstein , Marcin Płodzień