Quasiprobability distribution functions for periodic phase spaces: I. Theoretical aspects

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/31/016zbMATH Open1102.81055arXivquant-ph/0602216OpenAlexW1965474994MaRDI QIDQ5484484FDOQ5484484

Authors: M. Ruzzi, Elton C. da Silva, Diógenes Galetti, M. A. Marchiolli 

Publication date: 17 August 2006

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

Abstract: An approach featuring $s$-parametrized quasiprobability distribution functions is developed for situations where a circular topology is observed. For such an approach, a suitable set of angle-angular momentum coherent states must be constructed in appropriate fashion.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602216

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zbMATH Keywords

quasiprobability distributionsangular--angular momentum coherent statesphase space with circular topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coherent states (81R30) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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