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A quantum field theory approach is put forward to generalize the concept of classical spatial light beams carrying orbital angular momentum to the single-photon level. This quantization framework is carried out both in the paraxial and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. F. Calvo , A. Picon , E. Bagan

We derive the relativistic quantum kinetic equation for massless fermions with vector and axial vector interaction using the Wigner function formalism. The vector and axial vector currents are self-consistently treated with corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-04 Peiwei Yu , Xingyu Guo

Severe methodological and numerical problems of the traditional quantum mechanical approach to the description of molecular systems are outlined. To overcome these, a simple alternative to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is presented on…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Irmgard Frank

We use the Wigner transformation and asymptotic analysis to systematically derive the semi-classical model for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation in arbitrary spatial dimensions, with any periodic structure. Our particular emphasis lies in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Kunlun Qi , Li Wang , Alexander B. Watson

Teleportation of optical field states (as continuous quantum variables) is usually described in terms of Wigner functions. This is in marked contrast to the theoretical treatment of teleportation of qubits. In this paper we show that by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-11 S. Nagamachi , E. Brüning

We employ the Wigner function formalism to simulate partially coherent, dissipative electron transport in biased semiconductor superlattices. We introduce a model collision integral with terms that describe energy dissipation, momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 O. Jonasson , I. Knezevic

Quantum mechanics has been formulated in phase space, with the Wigner function as the representative of the quantum density operator, and classical mechanics has been formulated in Hilbert space, with the Groenewold operator as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 A. J. Bracken , J. G. Wood

We introduce a quantum phase space representation for the orientation state of extended quantum objects, using the Euler angles and their conjugate momenta as phase space coordinates. It exhibits the same properties as the standard Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-11 Timo Fischer , Clemens Gneiting , Klaus Hornberger

The Gaussian Wave-Packet phase-space representation is used to show that the expansion in powers of $\hbar$ of the quantum Liouville propagator leads, in the zeroth order term, to results close to those obtained in the statistical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. W. Bund , S. S. Mizrahi , M. C. Tijero

We establish covariant semiclassical transport equations of massive spin-1/2 particles which are generated by the quantum kinetic equation modified by enthalpy current dependent terms. The purpose of modification is to take into account the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 O. F. Dayi , E. Kilincarslan

We consider the propagation of two-photon light in a random medium. We show that the Wigner distribution of the two-photon wave function obeys an equation that is analogous to the radiative transport equation for classical light. Using this…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-19 Manabu Machida , Vadim A Markel , John C Schotland

A well known procedure to get quantum hydrodynamical models for charge transport is to resort to the Wigner equations and deduce the hierarchy of the moment equations as in the semiclassical approach. If one truncates the moment hierarchy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 V. D. Camiola , V. Romano , G. Vitanza

Applying a Weyl-Stratonovich transform to the evolution equation of the Wigner function in an electromagnetic field yields a multidimensional gauge-invariant equation which is numerically very challenging to solve. In this work, we apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Clemens Etl , Mauro Ballicchia , Mihail Nedjalkov , Josef Weinbub

The solution of the Liouville equation for the ensemble of free particles is presented and the classical analog to the quantum accelerating Airy wave packet is constructed and discussed. Considering the motion of various classical packets…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 A. Matulis , A. Acus

A general method of quantum-to-classical reduction of quantum dynamics is described. The key aspect of our method is the similarity transformation of the Liouvillian, which provides a new perspective. In conventional studies of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-04-09 Norikazu Kamiya

The Schrodinger motion of a charged quantum particle in an electromagnetic potential can be simulated by the paraxial dynamics of photons propagating through a spatially inhomogeneous medium. The inhomogeneity induces geometric effects that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-29 K. -P. Marzlin , Juergen Appel , A. I. Lvovsky

This paper provides numerical results that demonstrate the validity of the nonclassical diffusion approximation to the nonclassical transport equation in certain 1-D diffusive systems. This result provides a more solid foundation in which…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-27 Richard Vasques , Rachel Slaybaugh , Kai Krycki

Green function and linear integrals of motion for a charged particle moving in electric field are discussed. Wigner function and tomogram of the ststionary states of the charge are obtained. Connection of quantum propagators for Schrodinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Man'ko , E. V. Shchukin

We derive an exact quantum equation of motion for the photon Wigner operator in non-commutative QED, which is gauge covariant. In the classical approximation, this reduces to a simple transport equation which describes the hard thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 F. T. Brandt , Ashok Das , J. Frenkel

It is shown, that for quantum systems the vectorfield associated with the equations of motion may admit alternative Hamiltonian descriptions, both in the Schr\"odinger and Heisenberg pictures. We illustrate these ambiguities in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , E. C. G. Sudarshan , F. Zaccaria