Group theory and quasiprobability integrals of Wigner functions

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/20/102zbMATH Open1038.81044arXivquant-ph/0304010OpenAlexW2070287987MaRDI QIDQ4450115FDOQ4450115

Authors: A. J. Bracken, James G. Wood, Demosthenes Ellinas 

Publication date: 15 February 2004

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The integral of the Wigner function of a quantum mechanical system over a region or its boundary in the classical phase plane, is called a quasiprobability integral. Unlike a true probability integral, its value may lie outside the interval [0,1]. It is characterized by a corresponding selfadjoint operator, to be called a region or contour operator as appropriate, which is determined by the characteristic function of that region or contour. The spectral problem is studied for commuting families of region and contour operators associated with concentric disks and circles of given radius a. Their respective eigenvalues are determined as functions of a, in terms of the Gauss-Laguerre polynomials. These polynomials provide a basis of vectors in Hilbert space carrying the positive discrete series representations of the algebra su(1,1)or so(2,1). The explicit relation between the spectra of operators associated with disks and circles with proportional radii, is given in terms of the dicrete variable Meixner polynomials.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0304010

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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