Quantum mappings acting by coordinate transformations on Wigner distributions

DOI10.4171/RMI/1056MaRDI QIDQ2418890zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nuno Dias, João Nuno Prata

Publication date 29 May 2019

Published in Revista Matemática Iberoamericana (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00563

zbMATH Keywords

quantum mappingsymplectic covarianceWeyl operatorWigner distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Forms (bilinear, sesquilinear, multilinear) (47A07) Pseudodifferential operators (47G30) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: We prove two results about Wigner distributions. Firstly, that the Wigner transform is the only sesquilinear map $mathcalS(mathbb{R}^n)imesmathcalS(mathbb{R}^n)omathcalS(mathbb{R}^{2n})$ which is bounded and covariant under phase-space translations and linear symplectomorphisms. Consequently, the Wigner distributions form the only set of quasidistributions which is invariant under linear symplectic transformations. Secondly, we prove that the maximal group of (linear or non-linear) coordinate transformations that preserves the set of (pure or mixed) Wigner distributions consists of the translations and the linear symplectic and antisymplectic transformations.

Review text

Summary: We prove two results about Wigner distributions. Firstly, that the Wigner transform is the only sesquilinear map \(\mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^n) \times \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^n) \to \mathcal{S}(\mathbb{R}^{2n})\) which is bounded and covariant under phase-space translations and linear symplectomorphisms. Consequently, the Wigner distributions form the only set of quasidistributions which is invariant under linear symplectic transformations. Secondly, we prove that the maximal group of (linear or non-linear) coordinate transformations that preserves the set of (pure or mixed) Wigner distributions consists of the translations and the linear symplectic and antisymplectic transformations.

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