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By using a coherent state quantization of paragrassmann variables, operators are constructed in finite Hilbert spaces. We thus obtain in a straightforward way a matrix representation of the paragrassmann algebra. This algebra of finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 M. El Baz , R. Fresneda , J. P. Gazeau , Y. Hassouni

The main result of this article gives scaling asymptotics of the Wigner distributions $W_{\varphi_N^{\gamma},\varphi_N^{\gamma}}$ of isotropic harmonic oscillator orbital coherent states $\varphi_N^{\gamma}$ concentrating along Hamiltonian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Nicholas Lohr

Coherent states possess a regularized path integral and gives a natural relation between classical variables and quantum operators. Recent work by Klauder and Whiting has included extended variables, that can be thought of as gauge fields,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. C. Ashworth

We study a generalization of the Wigner function to arbitrary tuples of hermitian operators. We show that for any collection of hermitian operators A1...An , and any quantum state there is a unique joint distribution on R^n, with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-09 René Schwonnek , Reinhard F. Werner

We study numerically the coordinate wave functions and the Wigner functions of the coherent phase states (CPS), paying the main attention to their differences from the standard (Klauder--Glauber--Sudarshan) coherent states, especially in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-14 Miguel Citeli de Freitas , Viktor V. Dodonov

We give background material and some details of calculations for two recent papers [1,2] where we derived a path integral representation of the transition element for supersymmetric and nonsupersymmetric nonlinear sigma models in one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan de Boer , Bas Peeters , Kostas Skenderis , Peter van Nieuwenhuizen

The Feynman path integral for the generalized harmonic oscillator is reviewed, and it is shown that the path integral can be used to find a complete set of wave functions for the oscillator. Harmonic oscillators with different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dae-Yup Song

Higher (2nd)-order Wigner distribution function in quantum phase space for entangled bi-modal coherent states, a representative of higher (2nd)-order optical-polarization, is introduced by generalizing kernel (transiting) operator in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-04 Ravi S. Singh , Sunil P. Singh , Lallan Yadava , Gyaneshwar K. Gupta

By using the localized character of canonical coherent states, we give a straightforward derivation of the Bargmann integral representation of Wigner function (W). A non-integral representation is presented in terms of a quadratic form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando Parisio

We examine the interpretation of individual phase-space trajectories of the Wigner function as corresponding to possible outcomes of single experimental trials. To this end, we investigate the relation between the true (measured) particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 R. J. Lewis-Swan , M. K. Olsen , K. V. Kheruntsyan

We employ the path integral approach developed in [29] to discuss the (generalized) harmonic oscillator in a noncommutative plane. The action for this system is derived in the coherent state basis with additional degrees of freedom. From…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-30 Sunandan Gangopadhyay

Coherent state functional integral for the minisuperspace model of loop quantum cosmology is studied. By the well-established canonical theory, the transition amplitude in the path integral representation of loop quantum cosmology with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-07 Li Qin , Yongge Ma

We study linear spectral statistics of $N \times N$ Wigner random matrices $\mathcal{H}$ on mesoscopic scales. Under mild assumptions on the matrix entries of $\mathcal{H}$, we prove that after centering and normalizing, the trace of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-13 A. Lodhia , N. J. Simm

We study the behavior of infinite systems of coupled harmonic oscillators as t->infinity, and generalize the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) to show that their reduced Wigner distributions become Gaussian under quite general conditions. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Max Tegmark , Harold S. Shapiro

We propose path integral description for quantum mechanical systems on compact graphs consisting of N segments of the same length. Provided the bulk Hamiltonian is segment-independent, scale-invariant boundary conditions given by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-06 Satoshi Ohya

A detailed derivation of the semiclassical propagator in the generalized coherent-state representation is performed by applying the saddle-point method to a path integral over the classical phase space. With the purpose of providing greater…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Thiago F. Viscondi , Adriano Grigolo , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar

In this paper, we develop the formulation of the spin coherent state in real parameterization up to SU(5). The path integral in this representation of coherent state and its classical consequence are investigated. Using the resolution of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 Khikmat Kh. Muminov , Yousef Yousefi

The manner in which probability amplitudes of paths sum up to form wave functions of a harmonic oscillator, as well as other, simple 1-dimensional problems, is described. Using known, closed-form, path-based propagators for each problem, an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Randall M. Feenstra

We derive analytical expressions for the single mode quantum field state at the individual output ports of a beam splitter when a single-photon Fock state and a coherent state are incident on the input ports. The output states turn out to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-17 Armin Windhager , Martin Suda , Christoph Pacher , Momtchil Peev , Andreas Poppe

Quantum Hamiltonians containing nonseparable products of non-commuting operators, such as $\hat{\bf x}^m \hat{\bf p}^n$, are problematic for numerical studies using split-operator techniques since such products cannot be represented as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-15 Maximilian Ciric , Denys I. Bondar , Ole Steuernagel