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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Oscillator Wigner functions

GEORGE S. POGOSYAN, Ya.A. Smorodinsky, V. M. Ter-Antonyan

Published Apr 1, 1981• 10 citations
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Abstract

A closed expression is obtained for the n-dimensional Wigner oscillator function, and a diagrammatic technique is developed for finding the explicit dependence of the function on Euler angles at any dimension n.
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/14/4/008

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