Features of time-independent Wigner functions
- 8 June 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review D
- Vol. 58 (2) , 025002
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.58.025002
Abstract
The Wigner phase-space distribution function provides the basis for Moyal’s deformation quantization alternative to the more conventional Hilbert space and path integral quantizations. The general features of time-independent Wigner functions are explored here, including the functional (“star”) eigenvalue equations they satisfy; their projective orthogonality spectral properties; their Darboux (“supersymmetric”) isospectral potential recursions; and their canonical transformations. These features are illustrated explicitly through simple solvable potentials: the harmonic oscillator, the linear potential, the Pöschl-Teller potential, and the Liouville potential.Keywords
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