Region operators of Wigner function: transformations, realizations and bounds

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(06)80009-1zbMATH Open1110.81127arXivquant-ph/0510140OpenAlexW3098997376MaRDI QIDQ871984FDOQ871984

Demosthenes Ellinas, I. Tsohantjis

Publication date: 27 March 2007

Published in: Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An integral of the Wigner function of a wavefunction |psi >, over some region S in classical phase space is identified as a (quasi) probability measure (QPM) of S, and it can be expressed by the |psi > average of an operator referred to as the region operator (RO). Transformation theory is developed which provides the RO for various phase space regions such as point, line, segment, disk and rectangle, and where all those ROs are shown to be interconnected by completely positive trace increasing maps. The latter are realized by means of unitary operators in Fock space extended by 2D vector spaces, physically identified with finite dimensional systems. Bounds on QPMs for regions obtained by tiling with discs and rectangles are obtained by means of majorization theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510140

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zbMATH Keywords

majorizationquantum mechanicsquantum tomographycompletely positive maps

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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