A relativistic variant of the Wigner function

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2003.12.029MaRDI QIDQ2383307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 8 October 2007

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0304171

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryWigner function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

Abstract: The conventional Wigner function is inappropriate in a quantum field theory setting because, as a quasiprobability density over phase space, it is not manifestly Lorentz covariant. A manifestly relativistic variant is constructed as a quasiprobability density over trajectories instead of over phase space.

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