Moyal quantum mechanics: The semiclassical Heisenberg dynamics

DOI10.1006/aphy.1995.1057zbMath0829.58047arXivhep-th/9409120OpenAlexW3124318080MaRDI QIDQ1898378

F. H. Molzahn, T. A. Osborn

Publication date: 17 January 1996

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409120

zbMATH Keywords

phase spacequantum mechanicssemiclassical analysisMoyal descriptionWigner-Weyl isomorphism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) 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)

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