Communications in Theoretical Physics
Coordinate-Momentum Intermediate Representation and Marginal Distributions of Quantum Mechanical Bivariate Normal Distribution
Fan Hong-Yi, Lou Sen‐Yue
Abstract
We introduce bivariate normal distribution operator for state vector |ψ〉 and find that its marginal distribution leads to one-dimensional normal distribution corresponding to the measurement probability | λ,ν 〈x|·ψ〉| 2 , where |x〉 λ,ν is the coordinate-momentum intermediate representation. As a by-product, the one-dimensional normal distribution in statistics can be explained as a Radon transform of two-dimensional Gaussian function.