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The Weyl-Wigner-Moyal formalism for quantum particle with discrete internal degrees of freedom is developed. A one to one correspondence between operators in the Hilbert space $L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{3})\otimes{\mathcal{H}}^{(s+1)}$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Maciej Przanowski , Jaromir Tosiek , Francisco J. Turrubiates

We show that partial transposition for pure and mixed two-particle states in a discrete $N$-dimensional Hilbert space is equivalent to a change in sign of a "momentum-like" variable of one of the particles in the Wigner function for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 Yehuda B. Band , Pier A. Mello

The negativity of a given state's Wigner function has been proposed as a measure of quantumness of that state in a unipartite system. This otherwise physically intuitive and useful phase-space measure however does not yield the right…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-19 Tyler E Keating , Adam T. C. Steege , Arjendu K. Pattanayak

The Wigner function was introduced as an attempt to describe quantum-mechanical fields with the tools inherited from classical statistical mechanics. In particular, it is widely used to describe the properties of radiation fields. In fact,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-10 Juan Camilo López Carreño

Wigner function is a quasi-distribution that provides a representation of the state of a quantum mechanical system in the phase space of position and momentum. In this paper we find a relation between Wigner function and appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pier A. Mello , Michael Revzen

We apply the generalized Wigner function formalism to detect and characterize a range of quantum phase transitions in several cyclic, finite-length, spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ one-dimensional spin-chain models, viz., the Ising and anisotropic $XY$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 N. M. Millen , R. P. Rundle , J. H. Samson , Todd Tilma , R. F. Bishop , M. J. Everitt

We study the properties of quasi-distributions or Wigner measures in the context of noncommutative quantum mechanics. In particular, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a phase-space function to be a noncommutative Wigner…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 C. Bastos , N. C. Dias , J. N. Prata

In this article new bounds on weighted p-norms of ambiguity functions and Wigner functions are derived. Such norms occur frequently in several areas of physics and engineering. In pulse optimization for Weyl--Heisenberg signaling in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Peter Jung

A description of scalar charged particles, based on the Feshbach-Villars formalism, is proposed. Particles are described by an object that is a Wigner function in usual coordinates and momenta and a density matrix in the charge variable. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. I. Lev , A. A. Semenov , C. V. Usenko

This paper proposes an approach to interpreting quantum expectation values that may help address the quantum measurement problem. Quantum expectation values are usually calculated via Hilbert space inner products and, thereby, differently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Simon Friederich

The relativistic phase-space representation by means of the usual position and momentum operators for a class of observables with Weyl symbols independent of charge variable (i.e. with any combination of position and momentum) is proposed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. I. Lev , A. A. Semenov , C. V. Usenko

The thesis is devoted to the phase space representation of relativistic quantum mechanics. For a class of observables with matrix-valued Weyl symbols proportional to the identity matrix, the Weyl-Wigner-Moyal formalism is proposed. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Semenov

This paper aims to provide a consistent, finite-valued, and mathematically well-defined reformulation of the Feynman path-integral measure for quantum fields obtained by studying the Wiener stochastic process in the infinite-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-18 A. A. Varshovi

Wigner functions provide a way to do quantum physics using quasiprobabilities, that is, "probability" distributions that can go negative. Informationally complete POVMs, a much younger subject than phase space formulations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 John B. DeBrota , Blake C. Stacey

We introduce a new density for the representation of quantum states on phase space. It is constructed as a weighted difference of two smooth probability densities using the Husimi function and first-order Hermite spectrograms. In contrast…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 Johannes Keller , Caroline Lasser , Tomoki Ohsawa

The phase space dynamics of dissipative quantum systems in strongly condensed phase is considered. Based on the exact path integral approach it is shown that the Wigner transform of the reduced density matrix obeys a time evolution equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joachim Ankerhold

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

The density operator for a quantum system in thermal equilibrium with its environment depends on Planck's constant, as well as the temperature. At high temperatures, the Weyl representation, that is, the thermal Wigner function, becomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Olivier Brodier

We establish that the exact quantum dynamics of a Brownian particle in the Caldeira-Leggett model can be mapped, at any temperature, onto a classical, non-Markovian stochastic process in phase space. Starting from a correlated thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Dmitriy Kondaurov , Evgeny Polyakov

The presence of negative values in the Wigner quasiprobability distribution is deemed one of the hallmarks of nonclassical phenomena in quantum systems. Here we demonstrate a classical model of squeezed light that, when combined with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Brian R. La Cour