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In spite of their potential usefulness, the characterizations of Wigner functions for Bose and Fermi statistics given by O'Connell and Wigner himself almost thirty years ago has drawn little attention. With an eye towards applications in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-08 Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros , José M. Gracia-Bondía

We propose the Wigner separability entropy as a measure of complexity of a quantum state. This quantity measures the number of terms that effectively contribute to the Schmidt decomposition of the Wigner function with respect to a chosen…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-23 Giuliano Benenti , Gabriel G. Carlo , Tomaz Prosen

We sketch and emphasize the automatic emergence of a quantum potential Q in e.g. classical WDW type equations upon inserting a (Bohmian) complex wave function. The interpretation of Q in terms of momentum fluctuations via Fisher information…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Carroll

The Wigner function of quantum systems is an effective instrument to construct the approximate classical description of the systems for which the classical approximation is possible. During the last time, the Wigner function formalism is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Constantin V. Usenko

Regarding the strange properties of quantum entropy and entanglement, e.g., the negative quantum conditional entropy, we revisited the foundations of quantum entropy, namely, von Neumann entropy, and raised the new method of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Dong-Sheng Wang

We study several examples from quantum control theory in the framework of Wigner functions and measures for infinite dimensional open quantum systems. An axiomatic definition of coherent quantum feedback is proposed within this setting.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-11 J. E. Gough , T. S. Ratiu , O. G. Smolyanov

Phase-space features of the Wigner flow are examined so to provide a set of continuity equations that describe the flux of quantum information in the phase-space. The reported results suggest that the non-classicality profile of anharmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Alex E. Bernardini , Orfeu Bertolami

Given a positive function $f$ on $(0,\infty)$ and a non-zero real parameter $\theta$, we consider a function $I_f^\theta(A,B,X)=Tr X^*(f(L_AR_B^{-1})R_B)^\theta(X)$ in three matrices $A,B>0$ and $X$. In the literature $\theta=\pm1$ has been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Fumio Hiai , Denes Petz

In the article, on a new definition of quantum entropy, Campisi has explained an operator for entropy based on quantum number operator. It has been claimed that the expectation values for this operator increases for every non-quasi-static…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-18 Keyvan Sadri

In this article we introduce a quasiprobability distribution of work that is based on the Wigner function. This construction rests on the idea that the work done on an isolated system can be coherently measured by coupling the system to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Federico Cerisola , Franco Mayo , Augusto J. Roncaglia

One of the most prominent quasiprobability functions in quantum mechanics is the Wigner function that gives the right marginal probability functions if integrated over position or momentum. Here we depart from the definition of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 Hector Moya-Cessa

Entropy is one of the most basic concepts in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The most widely used definition of statistical mechanical entropy for a quantum system is introduced by von Neumann. While in classical systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tian Qiu , Zhaoyu Fei , Rui Pan , Haitao Quan

The use of the Wigner function for the study of quantum transport in open systems present severe criticisms. Some of the problems arise from the assumption of infinite coherence length of the electron dynamics outside the system of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-24 Carlo Jacoboni , Paolo Bordone

A phase space formulation of the filtering process upon an incident quantum state is developed. This formulation can explain the results of both quantum interference and delayed-choice experiments without making use of the controversial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniela Dragoman

We develop a complex-entropy framework for Wigner negativity and apply it to avoided crossings in an oval quantum billiard. For a real Wigner function the Gibbs--Shannon functional becomes complex; its imaginary part, proportional to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Kyu-Won Park , Jongin Jeong

Forty-five years after the point de d\'epart [1] of density functional theory, its applications in chemistry and the study of electronic structures keep steadily growing. However, the precise form of the energy functional in terms of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Philippe Blanchard , José M. Gracia-Bondía , Joseph C. Várilly

We first review the usefulness of the Wigner distribution functions (WDF), associated with Lindblad and pre-master equations, for analyzing a host of problems in Quantum Optics where dissipation plays a major role, an arena where weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. F. O'Connell

In contrast to classical physics, the language of quantum mechanics involves operators and wave functions (or, more generally, density operators). However, in 1932, Wigner formulated quantum mechanics in terms of a distribution function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 R. F. O'Connell

On the basis of the phase states, we present the correct integral expressions of the two number-phase Wigner functions discovered so far. These correct forms are derived from those defined in the extended Fock space with negative number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kiyotaka Kakazu

The original Wigner function provides a way of representing in phase space the quantum states of systems with continuous degrees of freedom. Wigner functions have also been developed for discrete quantum systems, one popular version being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kathleen S. Gibbons , Matthew J. Hoffman , William K. Wootters