Moyal brackets, star products and the generalised Wigner function

DOI10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00158-1MaRDI QIDQ1610014zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David B. Fairlie

Publication date 18 August 2002

Published in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9806198

zbMATH Keywords

bosonic objectMoyal-Nahm equationquark antiquark pairWigner-Weyl-Moyal approach to quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: The Wigner-Weyl- Moyal approach to Quantum Mechanics is recalled, and similarities to classical probability theory emphasised. The Wigner distribution function is generalised and viewed as a construction of a bosonic object, a target space co-ordinate, for example, in terms of a bilinear convolution of two fermionic objects, e.g. a quark antiquark pair. This construction is essentially non-local, generalising the idea of a local current. Such Wigner functions are shown to solve a BPS generalised Moyal-Nahm equation.

Review text

The Wigner-Weyl-Moyal approach to quantum mechanics is recalled, and similarities to classical probability theory emphasized. The Wigner distribution function is generalized and viewed as a construction of a bosonic object, a target space coordinate, for example, in terms of a bilinear convolution of two fermionic objects, e.g. a quark antiquark pair. This construction is essentially non-local, generalizing the idea of a local current. Such Wigner functions are shown to solve a BPS generalized Moyal-Nahm equation.

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