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Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics

Discrete Wigner function dynamics

A. B. Klimov, C Muñoz

Published Nov 16, 2005• 28 citations
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Abstract

We study the evolution of the discrete Wigner function for prime and the power of prime dimensions using the discrete version of the star-product operation. Exact and semiclassical dynamics in the limit of large dimensions are considered.
DOI
10.1088/1464-4266/7/12/022

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