Metaplectic formulation of the Wigner transform and applications

DOI10.1142/S0129055X13430101MaRDI QIDQ2871279zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nuno Dias, João Nuno Prata, Maurice de Gosson

Publication date 22 January 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.3388

zbMATH Keywords

deformation quantizationphase space representations of quantum mechanicsWeyl operatorsWigner functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General topics in linear spectral theory for PDEs (35P05) Pseudodifferential operators as generalizations of partial differential operators (35S05) Pseudodifferential operators and other generalizations of partial differential operators (35S99) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75)

Abstract: We show that the cross Wigner function can be written in the form $W(psi,phi)=hatS(psiotimesoverlinehatphi)$ where $hatphi$ is the Fourier transform of $phi$ and $hatS$ is a metaplectic operator that projects onto a linear symplectomorphism $S$ consisting of a rotation along an ellipse in phase space (or in the time-frequency space). This formulation can be extended to generic Weyl symbols and yields an interesting fractional generalization of the Weyl-Wigner formalism. It also provides a suitable approach to study the Bopp phase space representation of quantum mechanics, familiar from deformation quantization. Using the "metaplectic formulation" of the Wigner transform we construct a complete set of intertwiners relating the Weyl and the Bopp pseudo-differential operators. This is an important result that allows us to prove the spectral and dynamical equivalence of the Schr"odinger and the Bopp representations of quantum mechanics.

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