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Density matrices and Discrete Wigner Functions are equally valid representations of multiqubit quantum states. For density matrices, the partial trace operation is used to obtain the quantum state of subsystems, but an analogous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 K. Srinivasan , G. Raghavan

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

We derive the steady state solution of the Fokker-Planck equation that describes the dynamics of the nondegenerate optical parametric oscillator in the truncated Wigner representation of the density operator. We assume that the pump mode is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-24 K. Dechoum , M. D. Hahn , R. O. Vallejos , A. Z. Khoury

We calculate exactly the quantum mechanical, temporal Wigner quasiprobability density for a single-mode, degenerate parametric amplifier for a system in the Gaussian state, viz., a displaced-squeezed thermal state. The Wigner function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 Moorad Alexanian

We consider the Wigner equation corresponding to a nonlinear Schroedinger evolution of the Hartree type in the semiclassical limit $\hbar\to 0$. Under appropriate assumptions on the initial data and the interaction potential, we show that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Athanassoulis , T. Paul , F. Pezzotti , M. Pulvirenti

In this paper, we investigate the problem of simulating open system dynamics governed by the well-known Lindblad master equation. In our prequel paper, we introduced an input model in which Lindblad operators are encoded into pure quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Dhrumil Patel , Mark M. Wilde

An adaptation of the WKB method in the deformation quantization formalism is presented with the aim to obtain an approximate technique of solving the eigenvalue problem for energy in the phase space quantum approach. A relationship between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Jaromir Tosiek , Ruben Cordero , Francisco J. Turrubiates

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

A linear open quantum system consisting of a harmonic oscillator linearly coupled to an infinite set of independent harmonic oscillators is considered; these oscillators have a general spectral density function and are initially in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Esteban Calzetta , Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

The Lindblad equation for open quantum systems is central to our understanding of coherence and entanglement in the presence of Markovian dissipation. In closed quantum systems Hilbert-space fragmentation is an effective mechanism for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Dawid Paszko , Christopher J. Turner , Dominic C. Rose , Arijeet Pal

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 emergence of classical behaviour in quantum theory is often ascribed to the interaction of a quantum system with its environment, which can be interpreted as environmental monitoring of the system. As a result, off-diagonal elements of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-24 Dorje C. Brody , Eva-Maria Graefe , Rishindra Melanathuru

Ab-initio simulations of multiple heavy quarks propagating in a Quark-Gluon Plasma are computationally difficult to perform due to the large dimension of the space of density matrices. This work develops machine learning algorithms to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-22 Joshua Lin , Di Luo , Xiaojun Yao , Phiala E. Shanahan

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

We present the general solutions for the classical and quantum dynamics of the anharmonic oscillator coupled to a purely diffusive environment. In both cases, these solutions are obtained by the application of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-07 J. G. Peixoto de Faria

For multi-level open quantum system, the interaction between different levels could pose challenge to understand the quantum system both analytically and numerically. In this work, we study the approximation of the dynamics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yu Cao , Jianfeng Lu

We obtain an initial value representation for the quantum Loschmidt echo from the semiclassical theory of Wigner function evolution, together with classical first-order perturbation theory. In the limit of small actions, the amplitude of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Eduardo Zambrano , Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

Semiclassical Mechanics allows for a description of quantum systems which preserves their phase information, while using only the system's classical dynamics as an input. Over the time an identification has been developed between stationary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Kush Mohan Mittal , Olivier Giraud , Denis Ullmo

A finite Hilbert space can be associated to a periodic phase space, that is, a torus. A finite subgroup of operators corresponding to reflections and translations on the torus form respectively the basis for the discrete Weyl…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Marcos Saraceno , Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

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
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