Bounds on integrals of the Wigner function: The hyperbolic case

DOI10.1063/1.1851971MaRDI QIDQ3024282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James G. Wood, A. J. Bracken

Publication date 30 June 2005

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0411028

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eigenvalues, estimation of eigenvalues, upper and lower bounds of ordinary differential operators (34L15) Estimates of eigenvalues in context of PDEs (35P15) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: 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 phase space. We investigate the accumulation of these negative values by studying bounds on the integral of an arbitrary Wigner function over noncompact subregions of the phase plane with hyperbolic boundaries. We show using symmetry techniques that this problem reduces to computing the bounds on the spectrum associated with an exactly-solvable eigenvalue problem and that the bounds differ from those on classical Liouville distributions. In particular, we show that the total ``quasiprobability on such a region can be greater than 1 or less than zero.

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