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Wigner Measures in Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics

Mathematical Physics 2014-11-20 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We study the properties of quasi-distributions or Wigner measures in the context of noncommutative quantum mechanics. In particular, we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for a phase-space function to be a noncommutative Wigner measure, for a Gaussian to be a noncommutative Wigner measure, and derive certain properties of the marginal distributions which are not shared by ordinary Wigner measures. Moreover, we derive the Robertson-Schr\"odinger uncertainty principle. Finally, we show explicitly how the set of noncommutative Wigner measures relates to the sets of Liouville and (commutative) Wigner measures.

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@article{arxiv.0907.4438,
  title  = {Wigner Measures in Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics},
  author = {C. Bastos and N. C. Dias and J. N. Prata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4438},
  year   = {2014}
}

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31 pages, Latex file

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