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Wigner distributions play a significant role in formulating the phase space analogue of quantum mechanics. The Schrodinger wave-functional for solitons is needed to derive it for solitons. The Wigner distribution derived can further be used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Ramkumar Radhakrishnan , Vikash Kumar Ojha

We derive the semiclassical limit of the coherent state propagator for systems with two degrees of freedom of which one degree of freedom is canonical and the other a spin. Systems in this category include those involving spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. D. Ribeiro , M. A. M. de Aguiar , A. F. R. de Toledo Piza

In the framework of the spatial coherence wavelets, different features of the first-order spatial coherence (Young's interference) are analysed by calculating the corresponding marginal power spectrum, a close related quantity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-20 Román Castañeda , Gustavo Cañas-Cardona , Herbert Vinck-Posada

We consider the semiclassical limit of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with wavepacket initial data. We recover the Wigner measure of the problem, a macroscopic phase-space density which controls the propagation of the physical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Agissilaos Athanassoulis

In this lecture, a limited introduction of gauge invariance in phase-space is provided, predicated on canonical transformations in quantum phase-space. Exact characteristic trajectories are also specified for the time-propagating Wigner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cosmas Zachos , Thomas Curtright

Based on the dispersion chain of the Vlasov equations, the paper considers the construction of a new chain of equations of quantum mechanics of high kinematical values. The proposed approach can be applied to consideration of classical and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 E. E. Perepelkin , B. I. Sadovnikov , N. G. Inozemtseva , A. A. Korepanova

This paper presents an analytical treatment of the path integral formalism for time-dependent quantum systems within the framework of Wigner-Dunkl mechanics, emphasizing systems with varying masses and time-dependent potentials. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 A. Benchikha , B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu

Classical electrodynamics is reformulated in terms of wave functions in the classical phase space of electrodynamics, following the Koopman-von Neumann-Sudarshan prescription for classical mechanics on Hilbert spaces {\em sans} the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-25 A. K. Rajagopal , Partha Ghose

We calculate the Wigner quasiprobability distribution function of quantum elliptical vortex in elliptical beam (EEV), produced by coupling squeezed coherent states of two modes. The coupling between the two modes is performed by using beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-02 Abir Bandyopadhyay , Ravindra Pratap Singh

We study propagation in a system consisting of two topological insulators without a magnetic field, whose interface is a non-compact, smooth, and connected curve without boundary. The dynamics are governed by an adiabatic modulation of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Éric Vacelet

We derive a classical Schrodinger type equation from the classical Liouville equation in phase space. The derivation is based on a Wigner type Fourier transform of the classical phase space probability distribution, which depends on an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Edelver Carnovali , Humberto M. Franca

We address the propagation of the spin along classical trajectories for a 1/2-spin particle obeying the Dirac equation with scalar potentials. Focusing on classical trajectories as the exact propagation of wave-function discontinuities we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Jesús Rubio , Alfredo Luis

Recent experimental progress using ultracold gases in optical lattices necessitates a quantitative theoretical description for a significant number of bosons. In the present paper, we investigate if time-dependent semiclassical initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-14 Shouryya Ray , Paula Ostmann , Lena Simon , Frank Großmann , Walter T. Strunz

We construct a representation of the coherent state path integral using the Weyl symbol of the Hamiltonian operator. This representation is very different from the usual path integral forms suggested by Klauder and Skagerstan in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. C. dos Santos , M. A. M. de Aguiar

We formulate and argue in favor of the following conjecture: There exists an intimate connection between Wigner's quantum mechanical phase space distribution function and classical Fresnel optics.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Crasser , H. Mack , W. P. Schleich

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

Classical surfaces in phase space correspond to quantum states in Hilbert space. Subsystems specify factor spaces of the Hilbert space. An entangled state corresponds semiclassically to a surface that cannot be decomposed into a product of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Ozorio de Almeida

Wigner function is a quasi-distribution that provides a representation of the state of a quantum mechanical system in the phase space of position and momentum. In this paper we find a relation between Wigner function and appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Pier A. Mello , Michael Revzen

In this work, the Ginzburg-Landau theory is represented on a symplectic manifold with a phase space content. The order parameter is defined by a quasi-probability amplitude, which gives rise to a quasi-probability distribution function,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-06-21 E. A. Reis , G. X. A. Petronilo , R. G. G. Amorim , H. Belich , F. C. Khanna , A. E. Santana

We present the reconstruction of the Wigner function of a classical phase-sensitive state, a pulsed coherent state, by measurements of the distributions of detected-photons of the state displaced by a coherent probe field. By using a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Maria Bondani , Alessia Allevi , Alessandra Andreoni