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The integration of operator kernels with the Wigner distribution, first conceptualized by E. Wigner in 1932 and later extended by L. Cohen and others, has opened new avenues in time-frequency analysis and operator calculus. Despite…

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The harmonic oscillator with dissipation is studied within the framework of the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems. By using the Wang-Uhlenbeck method, the Fokker-Planck equation, obtained from the master equation for the density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Aurelian Isar

We present a perturbation analysis of the semiclassical Wigner equation which is based on the interplay between configuration and phase spaces via Wigner transform. We employ the so-called harmonic approximation of the Schrodinger…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 E. K. Kalligiannaki , G. N. Makrakis

In this paper, we study the viscous Boussinesq equation in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^n$, which describes the propagation of small amplitude and long waves on the surface of water with viscous effects. Concerning the linearized Cauchy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Wenhui Chen , Tuan Anh Dao

In this article we try to bridge the gap between the quantum dynamical semigroup and Wigner function approaches to quantum open systems. In particular we study stationary states and the long time asymptotics for the quantum Fokker-Planck…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 Anton Arnold , Franco Fagnola , Lukas Neumann

A classification of large-time and finite-time blow-up asymptotics of solutions of the Cauchy problem for higher-order Schr\"odinger equations is performed.

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We propose a numerical method for compensating dispersion effects in optical coherence tomography that does not require a priori knowledge of dispersive properties of the sample. The method is based on the generalized autoconvolution…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Konrad Banaszek , Aleksandr S. Radunsky , Ian A. Walmsley

The scattering of a wave obeying Helmholtz equation by an elliptic obstacle can be described exactly using series of Mathieu functions. This situation is relevant in optics, quantum mechanics and fluid dynamics. We focus on the case when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-11 Maxime Hubert , Remy Dubertrand

We present the application of variational-wavelet analysis to numerical/analytical calculations of Wigner functions in (nonlinear) quasiclassical beam dynamics problems. (Naive) deformation quantization and multiresolution representations…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonina N. Fedorova , Michael G. Zeitlin

In designing and optimizing new-generation nanomaterials and related quantum devices, dissipation versus decoherence phenomena are often accounted for via local scattering models, such as relaxation-time and Boltzmann-like schemes. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Rita Claudia Iotti , Fabrizio Dolcini , Fausto Rossi

We construct and justify leading order weakly nonlinear geometric optics expansions for nonlinear hyperbolic initial value problems, including the compressible Euler equations. The technique of simultaneous Picard iteration is employed to…

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Precise measurements of both the arrival time and carrier frequency of light pulses are essential for time-frequency-encoded quantum technologies. Quantum mechanics, however, imposes fundamental limits on the simultaneous determination of…

We propose a phase-space representation concept in terms of the Wigner function for a quantum harmonic oscillator model that exhibits the semiconfinement effect through its mass varying with the position. The new method is used to compute…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 S. M. Nagiyev , A. M. Jafarova , E. I. Jafarov

We investigate the capabilities of loss-tolerant quantum state characterization using a photon-number resolving, time-multiplexed detector (TMD). We employ the idea of probing the Wigner function point-by-point in phase space via photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K Laiho , M Avenhaus , K N Cassemiro , Ch Silberhorn

The usefulness of time-frequency analysis methods in the study of quasicrystals was pointed out in a previous paper, where we proved that a tempered distribution $\mu$ on ${\mathbb R}^d$ whose Wigner transform is a measure supported on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-06 Paolo Boggiatto , Carmen Fernández , Antonio Galbis , Alessandro Oliaro

We study the Cauchy problem for the Korteweg de Vries (KdV) equation with small dispersion and with monotonically increasing initial data using the Riemann-Hilbert (RH) approach. The solution of the Cauchy problem, in the zero dispersion…

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We consider Gaussian random waves on hyperbolic spaces and establish variance asymptotics and central limit theorems for a large class of their integral functionals, both in the high-frequency and large domain limits. Our strategy of proof…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Francesco Grotto , Giovanni Peccati

We state and prove here semiclassical results about the construction of asymptotic solutions by the WKB method for pseudo-differential equations of real principal type. It is a Gevrey version; the smooth $C^\infty$ and the analytic ones may…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Benjamin Colmey , Richard Lascar

We prove an error estimate for a Lie-Trotter splitting operator associated to the Schrodinger-Poisson equation in the semiclassical regime, when the WKB approximation is valid. In finite time, and so long as the solution to a compressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Rémi Carles

Wigner function tomography is indispensable for characterizing quantum states, but its commonly used version, balanced homodyne detection, suffers from several weaknesses. First, it requires efficient detection, which is critical for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-25 Mahmoud Kalash , Maria V. Chekhova