A spin observable for a Dirac particle

We discuss the form of the spin operator in relativistic quantum mechanics. We derive the form of the spin operator in the case when the states with negative energies are admitted. It appears that for a Dirac particle the spin operator reduces to the so called mean-spin operator introduced by Foldy and Wouthuysen. We show that the spin operator transforms under Lorentz group action according to an operator Wigner rotation, analogously as a Bloch vector describing polarization of a particle in momentum representation.     

Wigner crystallization in mesoscopic 2d electron systems

Wigner crystallization of electrons in 2D quantum dots is reported. It proceeds in two stages: (i) via radial ordering of electrons on shells and (ii) freezing of the intershell rotation. The phase boundary of the crystal is computed in the whole temperature-density plane, and the influences of quantum effects and the particle number are analyzed.     

Tunneling of an energy eigenstate through a parabolic barrier viewed from Wigner phase space

We analyze the tunneling of a particle through a repulsive potential resulting from an inverted harmonic oscillator in the quantum mechanical phase space described by the Wigner function. In particular, we solve the partial differential equations in phase space determining the Wigner function of an energy eigenstate of the inverted oscillator. The reflection or transmission coefficients R or T are then given by the total weight of all classical phase-space trajectories corresponding to energies below, or above the top of the barrier given by the Wigner function.     

Relations between chirp transform and Fresnel diffraction, Wigner distribution function and a fast algorithm for chirp transform

Two physical interpretations of chirp transform related to Fresnel diffraction and Wigner distribution function are given.The chirp transform can be regarded as a Fresnel diffraction observed on a spherical tangent to the diffraction plane,or a rotation and stretching transformation of the Wigner distribution function space.A general fast algorithm for the numerical calculation of chirp transform is developed by employing two fast Fourier transform algorithms.The algorithm,by which a good evaluation can be achieved,unifies the calculations of Fresnel diffraction,arbitrary fractionalorder Fourier transforms and other scalar diffraction systems.The algorithm is used to calculate the Fourier transform of a Gaussian function and the Fourier transform,the Fresnel transform,the Fractional-order Fourier transforms of a rectangle function to evaluate the performance of this algorithm.The calculated results are in good agreement with the analytical results,both in the amplitude and phase.     

一类特殊单模压缩态的Wigner函数

本文运用IWOP技术推导出Wigner算符的相干态显式,计算出一类特殊单模压缩态 |z〉_f,g=exp[－(|z|²)/2 +(fz+gz^*)a⁺－fga⁺²]|0〉的Wigner函数解析式,通过数值计算可以看到,参数f和g的任一个取值固定时,另一个参数的旋转取值会使得特殊 关键词： IWOP技术 Wigner算符 Wigner函数     

Wigner rotations and Iwasawa decompositions in polarization optics

Wigner rotations and Iwasawa decompositions are manifestations of the internal space-time symmetries of massive and massless particles, respectively. It is shown to be possible to produce combinations of optical filters which exhibit transformations corresponding to Wigner rotations and Iwasawa decompositions. This is possible because the combined effects of rotation, phase-shift, and attenuation filters lead to transformation matrices of the six-parameter Lorentz group applicable to Jones vectors and Stokes parameters for polarized light waves. The symmetry transformations in special relativity lead to a set of experiments which can be performed in optics laboratories.     

Quantum mechanics in Galilean space-time

The usual quantum mechanical treatment of a Schrödinger particle is translated into manifestly Galilean-invariant language, primarily through the use of Wigner-distribution methods. The hydrodynamical formulation of quantum mechanics is derived directly from the Wigner-distribution formulation, and the two formulations are compared. Wigner distributions are characterized directly, i.e., without reference to wave functions, and a heuristic interpretation of Wigner distributions and their evolution is developed.     

On the quantum-mechanical Fokker-Planck and Kramers-Chandrasekhar equation

In the classical theory of Brownian motion we can consider the Langevin equation as an infinitesimal transformation between the coordinates and momenta of a Brownian particle, given probabilistically, since the impulse appearing is characterized by a Gaussian random process. This probabilistic infinitesimal transformation generates a streaming on the distribution function, expressed by the classical Fokker-Planck and Kramers-Chandrasekhar equations. If the laws obeyed by the Brownian particle are quantum mechanical, we can reinterpret the Langevin equation as an operator relation expressing an infinitesimal transformation of these operators. Since the impulses are independent of the coordinates and momenta we can think of them as c numbers described by a Gaussian random process. The so resulting infinitesimal operator transformation induces a streaming on the density matrix. We may associate, according to Weyl functions with operators. The function associated with the density matrix is the Wigner function. Expressing, then, these operator relations in terms of these functions we can express the streaming as a continuity equation of the Wigner function. We find that in this parametrization the extra terms which appear are the same as in the classical theory, augmenting the usual Wigner equation.     

Two types of q‐deformed Wigner algebra

In this paper we introduce two types of q‐deformed Wigner algebras. One is q‐deformation of Wigner algebra with q‐reflection symmetry and another is q‐deformation of Wigner algebra with reflection symmetry. For two types of q‐deformed Wigner algebras, we investigate the representation and the eigenvalue of the position operator. Like q‐calculus, we introduce the (q; ν)‐ numbers, (q; ν)‐derivatives and (q; ν)‐Hermite polynomials for two algebras. For the deformation parameter q = 1 ‐ ϵ with small ϵ, we discuss the thermodynamics of the particle obeying the q‐deformed Wigner algebra.     

Particle Weights and Their Disintegration I

The notion of Wigner particles is attached to irreducible unitary representations of the Poincaré group, characterized by parameters m and s of mass and spin, respectively. However, the Lorentz symmetry is broken in theories with long-range interactions, rendering this approach inapplicable (infraparticle problem). A unified treatment of both particles and infraparticles via the concept of particle weights can be given within the framework of local quantum physics. They arise as temporal limits of physical states in the vacuum sector and describe the asymptotic particle content. In this paper their definition and characteristic properties, already presented in [9] and [14], are worked out in detail. The existence of the temporal limits is established by use of suitably defined seminorms which are also essential in proving the characteristic features of particle weights.     

Measurement-induced decoherence and Gaussian smoothing of the Wigner distribution function

We study the problem of measurement-induced decoherence using the phase-space approach employing the Gaussian-smoothed Wigner distribution function. Our investigation is based on the notion that measurement-induced decoherence is represented by the transition from the Wigner distribution to the Gaussian-smoothed Wigner distribution with the widths of the smoothing function identified as measurement errors. We also compare the smoothed Wigner distribution with the corresponding distribution resulting from the classical analysis. The distributions we computed are the phase-space distributions for simple one-dimensional dynamical systems such as a particle in a square-well potential and a particle moving under the influence of a step potential, and the time-frequency distributions for high-harmonic radiation emitted from an atom irradiated by short, intense laser pulses.     

Gravitational Spin Entropy Production

Spin entropy production for particles with arbitrary spin moving in a curved spacetime is discussed. There is a Wigner rotation due to both the acceleration an the curvature, which causes an initial pure state to transform into a final mixed state. Depending on the spacetime characteristics, one may find paths on which there is no Wigner rotation and the state remains pure.     

Asymptotics of Raynal-Revai coefficients at large hypermomentum

The Raynal-Revai coefficients are studied as the Wigner D functions of O(6) group generated by the kinematical rotation of two reduced Jacobi vectors in six-dimensional three-body space. These coefficients are represented as one-dimensional integrals with kernels equal to double sums of the Clebsh-Gordan coefficients and associated Legendre polynomials. Using this representation we derive the asymptotics of the Raynal-Revai coefficients at large values of the hypermomentum. The text was submitted by the author in English.     

Energy spectra of two interacting electrons in a quantum ring: rotating Wigner molecule

We study two interacting electrons confined within a quantum ring. For a narrow-width ring the radial motion is the fastest one and adiabatically decoupled from the angular motions. The role of the Coulomb interaction and the confining potential is to build a rotating Wigner molecule with the relative angular motion in form of harmonic oscillations. We calculate the electronic states and discuss the thermodynamical properties of two-electron quantum rings. It is shown that a strong correlation exists between the quantum numbers of rotation and oscillation of the Wigner molecule.     

The Wigner Functions for a Spin-1/2 Relativistic Particle in the Presence of Magnetic Field

This paper provides a study of Wigner functions for a spin-1/2 relativistic particle in the presence of magnetic field. Since the Dirac equation is described as a matrix equation, it is necessary to describe the Wigner function as a matrix function in phase space. What’s more, this function is then proved to satisfy the Dirac equation with ⋆-product. Finally, by solving the ⋆-product Dirac equation, the energy levels as well as the Wigner functions for a spin-1/2 relativistic particle in the presence of magnetic field are obtained.     

Joint distributions and local realism in the higher-spin Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment

A method is given to determine whether or not the distribution functions describing the two spin measurements in the spin-s Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment are compatible with the existence of distributions describing three spin measurements (not all of which can actually be performed). When applied to the spin-1/2 case the method gives the results of Wigner, or of Clauser, Holt, Horne, and Shimony, depending on whether or not the two-spin distributions are assumed to have the forms given by the quantum theory. Generalizations of the conditions of Wigner or of Clauser et al. to the spin-1 case are explicitly calculated. The spin-3/2 case is examined in some simple geometries to show that an apparently monotonic trend toward local realism as s increases from1/2 to1 is, in fact, violated when s increases from1 to3/2. The analysis is based on a novel representation of the modulus squared of a rotation matrix element. The structure of that matrix element responsible for the restoration of local realism in the classical (large s) limit is identified, but a rigorous treatment of the classical limit is not attempted. The higher-spin results are significantly stronger than those given by Mermin's spin-s Bell inequality.     

Irreducible multiplier corepresentations of the extended Poincaré group

The irreducible multiplier corepresentations of the extended Poincaré groupP are, for positive and zero mass, determined by generalized inducing from a generalized little group. This approach is compared with the previous one of Wigner. Form>0, and any spinj, a particular realization is noted which is manifestly covariant on all four components ofP. The choice of covering group forP is discussed, and reasons are given for preferring a group for whichS andT generate the quaternion group of order 8.     

Wigner分布函数及非整数傅里叶变换

本文研究了Wigner分布函数的特性,利用Wigner分布函数的旋转,将整数域傅里叶变换推广到了非整数域,描述了自由空间光场的演变过程.