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Wigner-positive quantum states have the peculiarity to admit a Wigner function that is a genuine probability distribution over phase space. The Shannon differential entropy of the Wigner function of such states -- called Wigner entropy for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Zacharie Van Herstraeten , Nicolas J. Cerf

We generalize Wheeler-Feynman electrodynamics with a variational boundary-value problem with past and future boundary segments that can include velocity discontinuity points. Critical-point trajectories must satisfy the Euler-Lagrange…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Daniel Câmara de Souza , Jayme De Luca

Using linear invariant operators in a constructive way we find the most general thermal density operator and Wigner function for time-dependent generalized oscillators. The general Wigner function has five free parameters and describes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sang Pyo Kim , Don N. Page

Bose-Einstein correlations of two identically charged $Q$-bosons are derived considering these particles to be confined in finite volumes. Boundary effects on single $Q$-boson spectrum are also studied. We illustrate the effects on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Q. H. Zhang , Sandra S. Padula

We present a unified approach to quantum teleportation in arbitrary dimensions based on the Wigner-function formalism. This approach provides us with a clear picture of all manipulations performed in the teleportation protocol. In addition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Koniorczyk , V. Buzek , J. Janszky

The general Weyl -- Wigner formalism in finite dimensional phase spaces is investigated. Then this formalism is specified to the case of symmetric ordering of operators in an odd -- dimensional Hilbert space. A respective Wigner function on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Maciej Przanowski , Jaromir Tosiek

A general formlulation for discrete-time quantum mechanics, based on Feynman's method in ordinary quantum mechanics, is presented. It is shown that the ambiguities present in ordinary quantum mechanics (due to noncommutativity of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Khorrami

In this thesis, we construct an approximate series solution of the Wigner equation in terms of Airy functions, which are semiclassically concentrated on certain Lagrangian curves in two-dimensional phase space. These curves are defined by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Konstantina-Stavroula Giannopoulou

We present a numerical scheme to solve the Wigner equation, based on a lattice discretization of momentum space. The moments of the Wigner function are recovered exactly, up to the desired order given by the number of discrete momenta…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-31 Sergio Solorzano , Miller Mendoza , Sauro Succi , Hans Herrmann

The relativistic Wigner function for spin 1/2 particles is the subject of active research due to diverse applications. However, further progress is hindered by the fabulous complexity of the integro-differential equations of motion. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-23 Renan Cabrera , Denys I. Bondar , Herschel A. Rabitz

The integral of the Wigner function over a subregion of the phase-space of a quantum system may be less than zero or greater than one. It is shown that for systems with one degree of freedom, the problem of determining the best possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Bracken , H. -D. Doebner , J. G. Wood

The paper is devoted to the Hamiltonian treatment of classical and quantum properties of Liouville field theory on a timelike strip in 2d Minkowski space. We give a complete description of classical solutions regular in the interior of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-19 Harald Dorn , George Jorjadze

We review the Weyl-Wigner formulation of quantum mechanics in phase space. We discuss the concept of Narcowich-Wigner spectrum and use it to state necessary and sufficient conditions for a phase space function to be a Wigner distribution.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nuno Costa Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

Relation between Renyi entropies and moments of the Wigner function, representing the quantum mechanical description of the M-particle semi-inclusive distribution at freeze-out, is investigated. It is shown that in the limit of infinite…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Bialas , W. Czyz , K. Zalewski

We study the boundary behavior of solutions to the Dirichlet problems for integro-differential operators with order of differentiability $s \in (0, 1)$ and summability $p>1$. We establish a nonlocal counterpart of the Wiener criterion,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Minhyun Kim , Ki-Ahm Lee , Se-Chan Lee

The main ideas behind a research plan to use the Wigner formulation as a bridge between classical and quantum probabilistic algorithms are presented, focusing on a particular case: the Quantum analog of Stochastic Gradient Descent in its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Jose A. Morales Escalante

When we have noncommutativity among coordinates (or conjugate momenta), we consider Wigner's formulation of quantum mechanics, including a new derivation of path integral formula. We also propose the Moyal star product based on the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Kokado , Takashi Okamura , Takesi Saito

Considering a generalization of the Gibbons-Hawking-York covariant boundary action that depends on both the extrinsic and the intrinsic geometry of the boundary, we derive boundary conditions for the cosmological background and tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-26 David Brizuela , Marco de Cesare

The problem of boundary behaviour at the origin of coordinates is discussed for D-dimensional Schrodinger equation in the framework of hyper spherical formalism, which have been often considered last time. We show that the Dirichlet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Anzor Khelashvili , Teimuraz Nadareishvili

A new non-perturbative approach to quantum theory in curved spacetime and to quantum gravity, based on a generalisation of the Wigner equation, is proposed. Our definition for a Wigner equation differs from what have otherwise been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Frank Antonsen