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Recently a paper on the construction of consistent Wigner functions for cylindrical phase spaces S^1 x R, i.e. for the canonical pair angle and angular momentum, was presented (arXiv:1601.02520), main properties of those functions derived,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 H. A. Kastrup

Viewed as approximations to quantum mechanics, classical evolutions can violate the positive-semidefiniteness of the density matrix. The nature of this violation suggests a classification of dynamical systems based on classical-quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Salman Habib , Kurt Jacobs , Hideo Mabuchi , Robert Ryne , Kosuke Shizume , Bala Sundaram

The integral of the Wigner function of a quantum mechanical system over a region or its boundary in the classical phase plane, is called a quasiprobability integral. Unlike a true probability integral, its value may lie outside the interval…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. J. Bracken , D. Ellinas , J. G. Wood

We present a new technique for constructing solutions of quasilinear systems of first-order partial differential equations, in particular inhomogeneous ones. A generalization of the Riemann invariants method to the case of inhomogeneous…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-01 Alfred Michel Grundland , Vincent Lamothe

In the context of phase-space quantization, matrix elements and observables result from integration of c-number functions over phase space, with Wigner functions serving as the quasi-probability measure. The complete sets of Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-02 Thomas Curtright , Tsuneo Uematsu , Cosmas Zachos

In this dissertation the Weyl-Wigner approach is presented as a map between functions on a real cartesian symplectic vector space and a set of operators on a Hilbert space, to analyse some aspects of the relations between quantum and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Zampini

Wavelets, known to be useful in non-linear multi-scale processes and in multi-resolution analysis, are shown to have a q-deformed algebraic structure. The translation and dilation operators of the theory associate with any scaling equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrei Ludu , Martin Greiner , Jerry P. Draayer

We derive the leading asymptotic approximation, for low angle {\theta}, of the Wigner rotation matrix elements $d^j_{m_1m_2}(\theta)$, uniform in $j,m_1$ and $m_2$. The result is in terms of a Bessel function of integer order. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Scott E. Hoffmann

A modified quantum kinetic equation which takes account of the noninertial features of rotating frame is proposed. The vector and axial-vector field components of the Wigner function for chiral fluids are worked out in a semiclassical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-24 Omer F. Dayi , Eda Kilincarslan

We describe a construction of wavelets (coherent states) in Banach spaces generated by ``admissible'' group representations. Our main targets are applications in pure mathematics while connections with quantum mechanics are mentioned. As an…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir V. Kisil

Deformation quantization is a powerful tool to quantize some classical systems especially in noncommutative space. In this work we first show that for a class of special Hamiltonian one can easily find relevant time evolution functions and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-04-03 Bing-Sheng Lin , Si-Cong Jing , Tai-Hua Heng

Wave-like partial differential equations occur in many engineering applications. Here the engineering setup is embedded into the Hilbert space framework of functional analysis of modern mathematical physics. The notion wave-like is a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Reinhard Honegger , Michael Lauxmann , Barbara Priwitzer

The basics of the Wigner formulation of Quantum-Mechanics and few related interpretational issues are presented in a simple language. This formulation has extensive applications in Quantum Optics and in Mixed Quantum-Classical formulations.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-11 Ali Mohammad Nassimi

We derive a semi-classical nonequilibrium work identity by applying the Wigner-Weyl quantization scheme to the Jarzynski identity for a classical Hamiltonian. This allows us, to the leading order in $\hbar$, to overcome the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 O. Brodier , K. Mallick , A. M. Ozorio de Almeida

We study the phase-space concentration of the so-called generalized metaplectic operators whose main examples are Schr\"odinger equations with bounded perturbations. To reach this goal, we perform a so-called $\mathcal{A}$-Wigner analysis…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-15 Elena Cordero , Gianluca Giacchi , Luigi Rodino

This paper proposes a low order geometrically exact flexible beam formulation based on the utilisation of generic beam shape functions to approximate distributed kinematic properties of the deformed structure. The proposed nonlinear beam…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 C. Howcroft , R. G. Cook , S. A. Neild , M. H. Lowenberg , J. E. Cooper , E. B. Coetzee

The concept of the Wigner function is used to construct a semi-classical kinetic theory describing the evolution of the axial-current phase-space density of spin-1/2 particles in the relaxation time approximation. The resulting approach can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-01 Samapan Bhadury , Wojciech Florkowski , Amaresh Jaiswal , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski

We explore the manipulation in phase space of many-body wavefunctions that exhibit self-similar dynamics, under the application of sudden force and/or in the presence of a constant acceleration field. For this purpose, we work out a common…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-11 G. Condon , A. Fortun , J. Billy , D. Guéry-Odelin

We consider semiclassically scaled, weakly nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with external confining potentials and additional angular-momentum rotation term. This type of model arises in the Gross-Pitaevskii theory of trapped, rotating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Xiaoan Shen , Christof Sparber

This paper discusses the possibility of applying the velocity averaging theorems in [F. Golse, P.-L. Lions, B. Perthame, R. Sentis: J. Funct. Anal. 76(1):110--125, 1988] to the Wigner equation governing the quantum evolution of the Wigner…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-14 François Golse , Jakob Möller