Wigner functions with boundaries

DOI10.1063/1.1504885MaRDI QIDQ4832746zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nuno Dias, João Nuno Prata

Publication date 14 December 2004

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0012140

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum chaos (81Q50) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: We consider the general Wigner function for a particle confined to a finite interval and subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions. We derive the boundary corrections to the "star-genvalue" equation and to the time evolution equation. These corrections can be cast in the form of a boundary potential contributing to the total Hamiltonian which together with a subsidiary boundary condition is responsible for the discretization of the energy levels. We show that a completely analogous formulation (in terms of boundary potentials) is also possible in standard operator quantum mechanics and that the Wigner and the operator formulations are also in one-to-one correspondence in the confined case. In particular, we extend Baker's converse construction to bounded systems. Finally, we elaborate on the applications of the formalism to the subject of Wigner trajectories, namely in the context of collision processes and quantum systems displaying chaotic behavior in the classical limit.

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