A new phase space density for quantum expectations

DOI10.1137/15M1028388MaRDI QIDQ5744669zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johannes Keller, Caroline Lasser, Tomoki Ohsawa

Publication date 19 February 2016

Published in SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08880

zbMATH Keywords

Egorov's theoremexpectation valuesHusimi functionstime-dependent Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical integration (65D30) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: We introduce a new density for the representation of quantum states on phase space. It is constructed as a weighted difference of two smooth probability densities using the Husimi function and first-order Hermite spectrograms. In contrast to the Wigner function, it is accessible by sampling strategies for positive densities. In the semiclassical regime, the new density allows to approximate expectation values to second order with respect to the high frequency parameter and is thus more accurate than the uncorrected Husimi function. As an application, we combine the new phase space density with Egorov's theorem for the numerical simulation of time-evolved quantum expectations by an ensemble of classical trajectories. We present supporting numerical experiments in different settings and dimensions.

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