Reduced matrix elements of V(12), V(13) and V(14) for d n configurations
Abstract
We demonstrate that the Wigner function of a pure quantum state is a wave function in a specially tuned Dirac bra-ket formalism and argue that the Wigner function is in fact a probability amplitude for the quantum particle to be at a certain point of the classical phase space. Additionally, we establish that in the classical limit, the Wigner function transforms into a classical Koopman-von Neumann wave function rather than into a classical probability distribution. Since probability amplitude need not be positive, our findings provide an alternative outlook on the Wigner function's negativity.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- November 2013
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1202.3628
- Bibcode:
- 2013PhRvA..88e2108B
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.Ca;
- 03.65.Sq;
- 03.67.Ac;
- Formalism;
- Semiclassical theories and applications;
- Quantum algorithms protocols and simulations;
- Quantum Physics;
- Mathematical Physics;
- Physics - Atomic Physics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages and 2 figures