Quantum mechanics in terms of non-negative smoothed Wigner functions
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 46 (3) , 1206-1212
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.46.1206
Abstract
A formalism that allows the formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of non-negative smoothed Wigner functions, in a simple and straightforward way, is developed. It contains the formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of Husimi distributions as a special case.Keywords
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