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We obtain the exact solution of the Klein-Gordon equation describing the propagation of a particle in two regions of different constant magnetic field, separated by an infinite plane wall. The continuity of the wave function and of its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jaime Besprosvany , Alejandro Ayala

We propose fractional Fokker-Planck equation for the kinetic description of relaxation and superdiffusion processes in constant magnetic and random electric fields. We assume that the random electric field acting on a test charged particle…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Chechkin , V. Gonchar , M. Szydlowski

We are interested in this paper with the connection between the dynamics of a model related to Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in Quantum Field Theory (QFT) with its classical counterpart known as the Maxwell-Bloch equations. The model in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Laurent Amour , Lisette Jager , Jean Nourrigat

We study the Schr\"odinger equation in quantum field theory (QFT) in its functional formulation. In this approach quantum correlation functions can be expressed as classical expectation values over (complex) stochastic processes. We obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-19 Z. Haba

We study the Wigner function for massive spin-1/2 fermions in electromagnetic fields. Dirac form kinetic equation and Klein-Gordon form kinetic equation are obtained for the Wigner function, which are derived from the Dirac equation. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-04 Xin-Li Sheng

We consider a simple quantum system subjected to a classical random force. Under certain conditions it is shown that the noise-averaged Wigner function of the system follows an integro-differential stochastic Liouville equation. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Salman Habib

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

Wigner functions play a central role in the phase space formulation of quantum mechanics. Although closely related to classical Liouville densities, Wigner functions are not positive definite and may take negative values on subregions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. G. Wood , A. J. Bracken

We show that the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation can be easily implemented in quantum phase space through the method of quasi-distributions. This method establishes a connection with the formalism of the Wigner function. As a by-product, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nuno Costa Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

In classical statistical mechanics, the partition function is defined in phase space. We extend this concept to quantum statistical mechanics using Bohmian trajectories. The quantum partition function in phase space captures the ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Bingyu Cui

A semiclassical Foldy--Wouthuysen transformation of the Dirac equation is used to obtain the radiationless Bloch equation for the polarisation density.

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Heinemann , D. P. Barber

The explicit semiclassical treatment of logarithmic perturbation theory for the bound-state problem within the framework of the radial Klein-Gordon equation with attractive real-analytic screened Coulomb potentials, contained time-component…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Dobrovolska , R. S. Tutik

We study a U(N) gauged matrix quantum mechanics which, in the large N limit, is closely related to the chiral WZW conformal field theory. This manifests itself in two ways. First, we construct the left-moving Kac-Moody algebra from matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Nick Dorey , David Tong , Carl Turner

We suggest an extension of the Hilbert Phase Space formalism, which appears to be naturally suited for application to the dissipative (open) quantum systems, such as those described by the non-stationary (time-dependent) Hamiltonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Tigran Aivazian

We show that the partition function of quantum Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity, including topological fluctuations, is equivalent to the partition function of a Maass-Laplace operator of large -- imaginary -- weight acting on non-compact,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-26 Antonio M. García-García , Salomón Zacarías

In his famous 2007 paper on three dimensional quantum gravity, Witten defined candidates for the partition functions $$Z_k(q)=\sum_{n=-k}^{\infty}w_k(n)q^n$$ of potential extremal CFTs with central charges of the form $c=24k$. Although such…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Ken Ono , Larry Rolen

We consider the quantum evolution of classically chaotic systems in contact with surroundings. Based on $\hbar$-scaling of an equation for time evolution of the Wigner's quasi-probability distribution function in presence of dissipation and…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 B. C. Bag , S. Chaudhuri , J. Ray Chaudhuri , D. S. Ray

We obtain a condition describing when the quasimodular forms given by the Bloch-Okounkov theorem as $q$-brackets of certain functions on partitions are actually modular. This condition involves the kernel of an operator {\Delta}. We…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Jan-Willem M. van Ittersum

The original Wigner function provides a way of representing in phase space the quantum states of systems with continuous degrees of freedom. Wigner functions have also been developed for discrete quantum systems, one popular version being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kathleen S. Gibbons , Matthew J. Hoffman , William K. Wootters

In this thesis, we study a quantization condition in relation to the solvability of Schr\"{o}dinger equations. This quantization condition is called the SWKB (supersymmetric Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin) quantization condition and has been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Yuta Nasuda