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We present the reconstruction of the Wigner function of some classical pulsed optical states obtained by direct measurement of the detected-photon probability distributions of the state displaced by a coherent field. We use a photodetector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Maria Bondani , Alessia Allevi , Alessandra Andreoni

We introduce the Wigner functional representing a quantum field in terms of the field amplitudes and their conjugate momenta. The equation of motion for the functional of a scalar field point out the relevance of solutions of the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 S. Mrowczynski , B. Mueller

Wigner functions are broadly used to probe non-classical effects in the macroscopic world. Here we develop an orbital-free functional framework to compute the 1-body Wigner quasi-probability for both fermionic and bosonic systems. Since the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-18 Carlos L. Benavides-Riveros

A quantum state can be written in phase space, but the resulting object is not generally the probability density of a positive stochastic process on ordinary phase space. We spell this out for Wigner dynamics. If a positive phase-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Surachate Limkumnerd , Panat Phanthaphanitkul

We present a phase space description of the process of quantum teleportation for a system with an $N$ dimensional space of states. For this purpose we define a discrete Wigner function which is a minor variation of previously existing ones.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Juan Pablo Paz

An integral of the Wigner function of a wavefunction |psi >, over some region S in classical phase space is identified as a (quasi) probability measure (QPM) of S, and it can be expressed by the |psi > average of an operator referred to as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Demosthenes Ellinas , Ioannis Tsohantjis

It has recently been shown that it is possible to represent the complete quantum state of any system as a phase-space quasi-probability distribution (Wigner function) [Phys Rev Lett 117, 180401]. Such functions take the form of expectation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 R. P. Rundle , P. W. Mills , Todd Tilma , J. H. Samson , M. J. Everitt

While commonly used entanglement criteria for continuous variable systems are based on quadrature measurements, here we study entanglement detection from measurements of the Wigner function. These are routinely performed in platforms such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Shuheng Liu , Jiajie Guo , Qiongyi He , Matteo Fadel

We demonstrate that the Wigner function of a pure quantum state is a wave function in a specially tuned Dirac bra-ket formalism and argue that the Wigner function is in fact a probability amplitude for the quantum particle to be at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Denys I. Bondar , Renan Cabrera , Dmitry V. Zhdanov , Herschel A. Rabitz

The Weyl-Wigner representation of quantum mechanics allows one to map the density operator in a function in phase space - the Wigner function - which acts like a probability distribution. In the context of statistical mechanics, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Marcos Gil de Oliveira , Alfredo Miguel Ozorio de Almeida

We extend shapelets for the analysis of galaxy images to be available in a phase space, introducing \textit{Wigner Function Shapelets (WFS)}. Whereas conventional shapelets expand images separately in configuration or Fourier space using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Shun Arai

In this work we have explored few tools in Quantum State Tomography for Continuous Variable Systems. The concept of quantum states in phase space representation is introduced in a simple manner by using a few statistical concepts. Unlike…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-12 Ludmila Botelho

An extended Wigner function formalism is introduced for describing the quantum dynamics of particles with internal degrees of freedom in the presence of spatially inhomogeneous fields. The approach is used for quantitative simulations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 Marcel Utz , Malcolm H Levitt , Nathan Cooper , Hendrik Ulbricht

Wigner phase space quasi-probability distribution function is a Fourier transform related to a given quantum mechanical wave function. It is shown that for the wave functions of type $\psi (q)=e^{-aq^2}\phi (q)$, the Wigner function can be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-01-02 A. Tegmen

We consider transfer of a highly nonclassical quantum state through an optomechanical system. That is we investigate a protocol consisting of sequential upload, storage and reading out of the quantum state from a mechanical mode of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Andrey A. Rakhubovsky , Radim Filip

The Wigner function W(q,p) is formulated as a phase-space path integral, whereby its sign oscillations can be seen to follow from interference between the geometrical phases of the paths. The approach has similarities to the path-centroid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. H. Samson

The framework of Wigner functions for the canonical pair angle and orbital angular momentum, derived and analyzed in 2 recent papers [H. A. Kastrup, Phys.Rev. A 94, 062113(2016) and Phys.Rev. A 95, 052111(2017)] is applied to elementary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-16 H. A. Kastrup

Based on the correspondence between Collins diffraction formula (optical Fresnel transform) and the transformation matrix element of a three-parameters two-mode squeezing operator in the entangled state representation (Opt. Lett. 31 (2006)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-06 Hong-yi Fan , Li-yun Hu

Traditional theories of electron transport in crystals are based on the Boltzmann equation and do not capture physics arising from quantum coherence. We introduce a transport formalism based on ''orbital Wigner functions'', which accurately…

A generalized Weyl quantization formalism for a particle on the circle investigated in \cite{1} is developed. A Wigner function for the state $\hat{\varrho}$ and the kernel $\mathcal{K}$ for a particle on the circle is defined and its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Maciej Przanowski , Przemyslaw Brzykcy , Jaromir Tosiek