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The Wigner eigenfunctions of a free quantum particle propagating on a plane are derived. Two possibilities are analysed. Firstly, the particle of given energy and angular momentum is discussed. In that case, a special choice of coordinates…

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We develop the Wigner phase space representation of a kicked particle for an arbitrary but periodic kicking potential. We use this formalism to illustrate quantum resonances and anti--resonances.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Bienert , F. Haug , W. P. Schleich , M. G. Raizen

We calculate the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 particles in an inhomogeneous electromagnetic field to leading order in the Planck constant $\hbar$. Going beyond leading order in $\hbar$ we then derive a generalized Boltzmann equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Nora Weickgenannt , Xin-li Sheng , Enrico Speranza , Qun Wang , Dirk H. Rischke

Using the quadrature bases that incorporate the spatiotemporal degrees of freedom, we develop a Wigner functional theory for quantum optics, as an extension of the Moyal formalism. Since the spatiotemporal quadrature bases span the complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Filippus S. Roux , Nicolas Fabre

Inspired on the continued-fraction technique to solve the classical Fokker--Planck equation, we develop continued-fraction methods to solve quantum master equations in phase space (Wigner representation of the density matrix). The approach…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. L. Garcia-Palacios

In this paper, we study the full asymptotic expansion of the partition functions of determinantal point processes defined on a polarized K\"ahler manifold. We show that the coefficients of the expansion are given by geometric functionals on…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Kiyoon Eum

We show how to represent the state and the evolution of a quantum computer (or any system with an $N$--dimensional Hilbert space) in phase space. For this purpose we use a discrete version of the Wigner function which, for arbitrary $N$, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pablo Bianucci , Cesar Miquel , Juan Pablo Paz , Marcos Saraceno

We consider a microscopic model of spacetime, where spacetime is assumed to be a specific graph with Planck size quantum black holes on its vertices. As a thermodynamical system under consideration we take a certain uniformly accelerating,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-10-28 Jarmo Makela

The Wigner phase-space distribution function provides the basis for Moyal's deformation quantization alternative to the more conventional Hilbert space and path integral quantizations. General features of time-independent Wigner functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-02 Thomas Curtright , David Fairlie , Cosmas Zachos

We calculate the atomic (spin) Wigner function for the single mode Dicke model in the regime of large number of two-level atoms. The dynamics of this quasi-probability function on the Bloch sphere allows us to visualize the consequences of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Sanz , K. Furuya

The Wigner function, which provides a phase-space description of quantum systems, has various applications in quantum mechanics, quantum kinetic theory, quantum optics, radiation transport and others. The concept of Wigner function has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-05 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

In these lectures we detail the interplay between the low-energy dynamics of quantum field theories with four supercharges and the exact WKB analysis. This exposition may be the first comprehensive account of this connection and includes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Loïc Bramley , Lotte Hollands , Subrabalan Murugesan

We propose the assumption of quantum mechanics on a discrete space and time, which implies the modification of mathematical expressions for some postulates of quantum mechanics. In particular we have a Hilbert space where the vectors are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lorente

We prove that Wigner functions contain a symplectic connection. The latter covariantises the symplectic exterior derivative on phase space. We analyse the role played by this connection and introduce the notion of local symplectic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Isidro

We investigate within the formalism of Symplectic Quantum Mechanics a two-dimensional non-relativistic strong interacting system that represents the bound heavy quark-antiquark state, where it was considered a linear potential in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-24 M. Abu-Shady , Renato R. Luz , G. X. A. Petronilo , R. G. G. Amorim , A. E. Santana

For classical canonical transformations, one can, using the Wigner transformation, pass from their representation in Hilbert space to a kernel in phase space. In this paper it will be discussed how the time-dependence of the uncertainties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-19 Dieter Schuch , Marcos Moshinsky

We construct an explicit Wigner function for N-mode squeezed state. Based on a previous observation that the Wigner function describes correlations in the joint measurement of the phase-space displaced parity operator, we investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chunfeng Wu , Jing-Ling Chen , L. C. Kwek , C. H. Oh , Kang Xue

We calculate the Wigner function for charged spin-1 particles in inhomogeneous classical electromagnetic fields, going to first order in a power series in $\hbar$. The Boltzmann equation for the scalar distribution function obtained from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-29 David Wagner , Nora Weickgenannt , Enrico Speranza

We extend the Wigner-Weyl-Moyal phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics to general curved configuration spaces. The underlying phase space is based on the chosen coordinates of the manifold and their canonically conjugate momenta. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Clemens Gneiting , Timo Fischer , Klaus Hornberger

The Bargmann-Fock space(or Fock space for short) is a fundamental example of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces that has found fascinating applications across multiple fields of current interest, including quantum mechanics, time-frequency…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Kamal Diki