• Title of article

    Region operators of wigner function: Transformations, realizations and bounds

  • Author/Authors

    Ellinas، نويسنده , , Demosthenes and Tsohantjis، نويسنده , , Ioannis، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2006
  • Pages
    19
  • From page
    69
  • To page
    87
  • Abstract
    An integral of the Wigner function of a wave function ψ>, over some region S in classical phase space is identified as a (quasi)-probability measure (QPM) of S, and it can be expressed by the ψ> average of an operator referred to as the region operator (RO). Transformation theory is developed which provides the RO for various phase-space regions such as point, line, segment, disk and rectangle, and where all those ROs are shown to be interconnected by completely positive trace increasing maps. The latter are realized by means of unitary operators in Fock space extended by 2D vector spaces, physically identified with finite-dimensional systems. Bounds on QPMs for regions obtained by tiling with discs and rectangles are obtained by means of majorization theory.
  • Keywords
    quantum tomography , Completely positive maps , majorization , Wigner function , region operators , Quantum mechanics
  • Journal title
    Reports on Mathematical Physics
  • Serial Year
    2006
  • Journal title
    Reports on Mathematical Physics
  • Record number

    1585722