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Chapman & Hall/CRC eBooks

Wigner Transforms and Weyl Transforms

M.W. Wong

Published Jun 3, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

Wigner transforms and Weyl transforms are not only useful as tools in this book, but also arise in many different contexts in mathematics. For this reason, we find it worthwhile to present them in the setting of Rn. The books [4, 40] contain much more information on these topics.
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10.1201/b14982-22

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The Fourier–Wigner transform of two functions is first defined and is given an alternative expression. The Wigner transform is then defined to be the Fourier transform of the Fourier–Wigner transform. The Moyal identity, which is an analog of the Plancherel formula, is then proved for the Wigner transform. The Weyl transform with a given symbol is then defined in terms of the Wigner transform. Another formula for the Weyl transform with a given symbol is then proved and used to establish the fact that the product of two Weyl transforms is also a Weyl transform with symbol given by a twisted convolution of the two given symbols.
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Quantum mechanics is arguably one of the most successful scientific theories ever and its applications to chemistry, optics, and information theory are innumerable. This book provides the reader with a rigorous treatment of the main mathematical tools from harmonic analysis which play an essential role in the modern formulation of quantum mechanics. This allows us at the same time to suggest some new ideas and methods, with a special focus on topics such as the Wigner phase space formalism and its applications to the theory of the density operator and its entanglement properties. This book can be used with profit by advanced undergraduate students in mathematics and physics, as well as by confirmed researchers.
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