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Nonlinear WKB is a multiscale technique for studying locally-plane-wave solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE). Its application comprises two steps: (1) replacement of the original PDE with an extended system separating…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 J. W. Burby , D. E. Ruiz

As a phase space language for quantum mechanics, the Wigner function approach bears a close analogy to classical mechanics and has been drawing growing attention, especially in simulating quantum many-body systems. However, deterministic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Yunfeng Xiong , Zhenzhu Chen , Sihong Shao

We study the propagation of sound waves in a three-dimensional, infinite ambient flow with weak random fluctuations of the mean particle velocity and speed of sound. We more particularly address the regime where the acoustic wavelengths are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-03 Jean-Luc Akian , Éric Savin

In the present paper we consider the varying coefficient model which represents a useful tool for exploring dynamic patterns in many applications. Existing methods typically provide asymptotic evaluation of precision of estimation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-02-07 Olga Klopp , Marianna Pensky

A high order wavelet integral collocation method (WICM) is developed for general nonlinear boundary value problems in physics. This method is established based on Coiflet approximation of multiple integrals of interval bounded functions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Lei Zhang , Jizeng Wang , Xiaojing Liu , Youhe Zhou

Analytical methods are fundamental in studying acoustics problems. One of the important tools is the Wiener-Hopf method, which can be used to solve many canonical problems with sharp transitions in boundary conditions on a plane/plate.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Matthew Nethercote , Anastasia Kisil , Raphael Assier

This paper is concerned with the efficient numerical computation of solutions to the 1D stationary Schr\"odinger equation in the semiclassical limit in the highly oscillatory regime. A previous approach to this problem based on explicitly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-05 A. Arnold , C. Klein. B. Ujvari

This paper contains a brief sketch of some methods that can be used to obtain the Wigner function for a number of systems. We give an overview of the technique as it is applied to some simple differential systems related to diffusion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-05 P. G. Morrison

We justify the WKB analysis for the semiclassical nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a subquadratic potential. This concerns subcritical, critical, and supercritical cases as far as the geometrical optics method is concerned. In the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Rémi Carles

In the framework of statistical optics, a Wigner function represents partially coherent radiation. A Gaussian Wigner function, which is an equivalent representation of the more commonly used Gaussian Schell-model cross-spectral density, may…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Ilya V. Pogorelov , Boaz Nash , Dan T. Abell , Paul Moeller , Nicholas Goldring

We study the high-temperature behavior of quantum-mechanical path integrals. Starting from the Feynman-Kac formula, we derive a new functional representation of the Wigner-Kirkwood perturbation expansion for quantum Boltzmann densities. As…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-24 Petr Jizba , Vaclav Zatloukal

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

This paper aims to show global existence and modified scattering for the solutions of the Cauchy problem to the modified Whitham equations for small, smooth and localized initial data. The main difficulties come from slow decay and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Han Cui , Yuexun Wang , Zhouping Xin

The WKB approximation plays an essential role in the development of quantum mechanics and various important results have been obtained from it. In this paper, we introduce another method, {\it the so-called uniform asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Bao-Fei Li , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

It is shown that, while Wigner and Liouville functions transform in an identical way under linear symplectic maps, in general they do not transform identically for nonlinear symplectic maps. Instead there are ``quantum corrections'' whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alex J. Dragt , Salman Habib

We perform Wigner analysis of linear operators. Namely, the standard time-frequency representation \emph{Short-time Fourier Transform} (STFT) is replaced by the $\mathcal{A}$-\emph{Wigner distribution} defined by $W_{\mathcal A}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-10 Elena Cordero , Luigi Rodino

In these lectures, we provide an introduction to the complex WKB method, using as a guiding example a class of anharmonic oscillators that appears in the ODE/IM correspondence. In the first three lectures, we introduce the main objects of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Gabriele Degano , Davide Masoero

We investigate within the formalism of Symplectic Quantum Mechanics a two-dimensional non-relativistic strong interacting system that represents the bound heavy quark-antiquark state, where it was considered a linear potential in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-24 M. Abu-Shady , Renato R. Luz , G. X. A. Petronilo , R. G. G. Amorim , A. E. Santana

Precise modeling of extended sources is a central challenge in modern optical engineering, laser physics, and computational lithography. Unlike ideal point sources or completely incoherent thermal radiation sources, real-world light sources…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-09 Rongqi Shang , Donglin Ma

The Wigner function W(q,p) is formulated as a phase-space path integral, whereby its sign oscillations can be seen to follow from interference between the geometrical phases of the paths. The approach has similarities to the path-centroid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. H. Samson