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We demonstrate that the Wigner function of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen state, though positive definite, provides a direct evidence of the nonlocal character of this state. The proof is based on an observation that the Wigner function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Konrad Banaszek , Krzysztof Wodkiewicz

In this paper, we investigate the transformation laws of the Wigner function under changes of reference frames. By employing the coordinate transformation of the wave functions, we derive an integral representation for the transformed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 J. Berra-Montiel , G. F. Torres del Castillo

The short time dynamics of a quantum Brownian particle in a harmonic potential is studied in the phase space. An exact non-Markovian analytic approach to calculate the time evolution of the Wigner function is presented. The dynamics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Sabrina Maniscalco

Second-order relativistic hydrodynamics is surprisingly predictive, even in the presence of large gradients. The hydrodynamic expansion from the method of moments does not require a gradient expansion, but it is intrinsically bound to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-23 Leonardo Tinti

Wigner's quasi-probability distribution function in phase-space is a special (Weyl) representation of the density matrix. It has been useful in describing quantum transport in quantum optics; nuclear physics; decoherence (eg, quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cosmas K Zachos

Quasiprobability representations, such as the Wigner function, play an important role in various research areas. The inevitable appearance of negativity in such representations is often regarded as a signature of nonclassicality, which has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Huangjun Zhu

Both classical and quantum damped systems give rise to complex spectra and corresponding resonant states. We investigate how resonant states, which do not belong to the Hilbert space, fit the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics. It…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Chruscinski

We consider the noncommutative algebra which is rotationally invariant. The hydrogen atom is studied in a rotationally invariant noncommutative space. We find the corrections to the energy levels of the hydrogen atom up to the second order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Kh. P. Gnatenko , V. M. Tkachuk

We analyze the tunneling of a particle through a repulsive potential resulting from an inverted harmonic oscillator in the quantum mechanical phase space described by the Wigner function. In particular, we solve the partial differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 D. M. Heim , W. P. Schleich , P. M. Alsing , J. P. Dahl , S. Varro

The new numerical version of the Wigner approach to quantum mechanics for treatment thermodynamic properties of strongly coupled systems of particles has been developed for extreme conditions, when analytical approximations obtained in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. S. Larkin , V. S. Filinov , V. E. Fortov

A set of quantum hydrodynamic equations are derived from the moments of the electrostatic mean-field Wigner kinetic equation. No assumptions are made on the particular local equilibrium or on the statistical ensemble wave functions. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Haas , M. Marklund , G. Brodin , J. Zamanian

The position and momentum probability densities of a multidimensional quantum system are fully characterized by means of the radial expectation values $\langle r^\alpha \rangle$ and $\left\langle p^\alpha \right\rangle$, respectively. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 J. S. Dehesa , D. Puertas-Centeno

Non-Gaussian correlations in a pure state are inextricably linked with non-classical features, such as a non positive-definite Wigner function. In a commonly used simulation technique in ultracold atoms and quantum optics, known as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 J. F. Corney , M. K. Olsen

In this work we study the Wigner functions, which are the quantum analogues of the classical phase space density, and show how a full rigorous semiclassical scheme for all orders of \hbar can be constructed for them without referring to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gregor Veble , Marko Robnik , Valery Romanovski

In Part one of this Paper a hypothesis is forwarded of the electron charge in an atom existing in a distributed form. To check it by methods of electrodynamics and mechanics (without invoking the formalism of quantum mechanics and the…

General Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Andrey Vasilyev

The non-relativistic hydrogen atom and the Zwanziger problem have the same dynamical symmetry for bound and scattering states.We show that this is also true for a Hilbert space which is non-commutative in co-ordinates. The group structure…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Juhi Rajhans

The nonnegativity of the density operator of a state is faithfully coded in its Wigner distribution, and this places constraints on the moments of the Wigner distribution. These constraints are presented in a canonically invariant form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Simon , N. Mukunda

Wigner distributions contain combined position and momentum space information of the quark distributions and are related to both generalized parton distributions (GPDs) and transverse momentum dependent parton distributions (TMDs). We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Asmita Mukherjee , Sreeraj Nair , Vikash Kumar Ojha

We shall revisit the conventional treatment of open quantum devices based on the Wigner-Function formalism. Our analysis will show that the artificial spatial separation between device active region and external reservoirs -properly defined…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Luigi Genovese , David Taj , Fausto Rossi

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