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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Quantum phase-space methods for fermions

Joel Frederick Corney, P. D. Drummond

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present a phase-space method for fermionic systems, which enables simulations of the dynamics and thermal equilibrium states of many-body quantum systems from first principles. As examples, we calculate finite-temperature correlation functions.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2004.itui21

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