Friday, April 6, 2012

1204.1302 (Bahar Mehmani et al.)

Visualizing the Quantum Interaction Picture in Phase Space    [PDF]

Bahar Mehmani, Andrea Aiello
We illustrate the correspondence between the quantum Interaction Picture-evolution of the state of a quantum system in Hilbert space and a combination of local and global transformations of its Wigner function in phase space. To this aim, we consider the time-evolution of a quantized harmonic oscillator driven by both a linear and a quadratic (in terms of bosonic creation and annihilation operators) potentials and employ the Magnus series to derive the exact form of the time-evolution operator. In this case, the Interaction Picture corresponds to a local transformation of phase space-reference frame into the one that is co-moving with the Wigner function.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1302

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