WIGNER FUNCTIONS, FRESNEL OPTICS, AND SYMPLECTIC CONNECTIONS ON PHASE SPACE

DOI10.1142/S0219887808003089zbMATH Open1151.81350arXiv0710.3544OpenAlexW2023605068MaRDI QIDQ3542809FDOQ3542809

Authors: J. M. Isidro 

Publication date: 1 December 2008

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that Wigner functions contain a symplectic connection. The latter covariantises the symplectic exterior derivative on phase space. We analyse the role played by this connection and introduce the notion of local symplectic covariance of quantum-mechanical states. This latter symmetry is at work in the Schroedinger equation on phase space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3544

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsphase spaceWigner functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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