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Some Problems on Quantum Noise in Quantum Field Theories: Filtering, Parameter Estimation, Noisy Feynman Path Integrals, Noisy Scattering, and Noisy Quantum Boltzmann from the Weyl–Moyal–Wigner Transform Perspective

Harish Parthasarathy

Published Jul 16, 2026• 0 citations
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This paper explores some of the applications of quantum stochastic calculus (qsc) as founded by R.L.Hudson and K.R.Parthasarathy and the theory of the quantum filter established by V.P.Belavkin based on qsc which was simplified considerably by John Gough, Claude Kostler and others to quantum field theory. Specifically, we first derive some general versions of the Belavkin quantum filter for the case when the Hamiltonian and Lindblad operators in the Hudson-Parthasarathy noisy Schrodinger equation (HPSDE) are functions of a classical Markovian time varying parameter process whose statistics is determined by an infinitesimal generator. Using this generalized Belavkin filter, we show how we can estimate on real time basis not only the evolving mixed state of the system but also the probability density of the Markovian parameter. Our generalized filter enables us to obtain a function \(\rho{(t,\theta)}\) that represents an estimate of the state of the quantum system at time \(t\) as well as the probability density of the parameter \(\theta\) at time \(t\). Specifically, when \({X{(\theta)}} = {\sum_{k = 1}^{n}{f_{k}{(\theta)}X_{k}}}\) is a system observable dependent upon the Markovian \(\theta\), then, \(\int{Tr{({\rho{(t,\theta)}X{(\theta)}})}{d\theta}}\) would represent the conditional expectation of \({X{(t,{\theta{(t)}})}} = {U{(t)}^{\ast}X{({\theta{(t)}})}U{(t)}}\) given non-demolition measurements at time \(t\)This paper explores some of the applications of quantum stochastic calculus (qsc) as founded by R.L.Hudson and K.R.Parthasarathy and the theory of the quantum filter established by V.P.Belavkin based on qsc which was simplified considerably by John Gough, Claude Kostler and others to quantum field theory. Specifically, we first derive some general versions of the Belavkin quantum filter for the case when the Hamiltonian and Lindblad operators in the Hudson-Parthasarathy noisy Schrodinger equation (HPSDE) are functions of a classical Markovian time varying parameter process whose statistics is determined by an infinitesimal generator. Using this generalized Belavkin filter, we show how we can estimate on real time basis not only the evolving mixed state of the system but also the probability density of the Markovian parameter. Our generalized filter enables us to obtain a function \(\rho{(t,\theta)}\) that represents an estimate of the state of the quantum system at time \(t\) as well as the probability density of the parameter \(\theta\) at time \(t\). Specifically, when \({X{(\theta)}} = {\sum_{k = 1}^{n}{f_{k}{(\theta)}X_{k}}}\) is a system observable dependent upon the Markovian \(\theta\), then, \(\int{Tr{({\rho{(t,\theta)}X{(\theta)}})}{d\theta}}\) would represent the conditional expectation of \({X{(t,{\theta{(t)}})}} = {U{(t)}^{\ast}X{({\theta{(t)}})}U{(t)}}\) given non-demolition measurements at time \(t\). After that, we show how the Weyl-Moyal-Wigner transform can be used to formulate noisy quantum evolutions as well as Belavkin filter equations in a classical language wherein intepretations of quantum observables and states are given in terms of classical complex functions of positions and momenta. Marginals of the Wigner distribution of the state for example represent probabiity densities of positions and momenta but the Wigner distribution of the state does not represent any joint probability density of the positions and momenta, indeed the Heisenberg uncertainty does not allow any such interpretation. We then illustrate how a quantum mechanical theory taking into account quantum noise can be constructed in a natural way by perturbing the electromagnetic field with quantum super-symmetric noise introducing even and odd system operators. We explain how the interaction between the matter supercurrent and the metric superfield in supergravity theories can be perturbed by quantum noise by adding supersymmetric quantum noise to the matter supercurrent. Further, with the hope that Feynman path integrals can be used in quantum noisy field theories to evaluate transition amplitudes of scattering, we propose a Feynnman path integral approach to the solution of the HPQSDE when the system can be described by canonical position and momentum operators. We then describe quantum scattering in the presence of quantum noise in the HPQSDE framework. Here either one or both of the Hamiltonians contains noise and the corresponding joint unitary evolution of system and bath is described by a HPQSDE and we illustrate some methods for computing the scattering wave operators and analyzing their existence using standard quantum scattering inequalities. Finally, we develop some formulae for computing the rate of change of Von-Neumann entropy of the Belavkin filtered quantum state based on combining Lie algebraic methods for evaluating the differential of the matrix exponential map with Ito’s formula for Brownian motion, Poisson and Levy processes and even for Martingales. These formulae that describe rate of entropy increase have potential applications to quantum information and quantum commmunication when we require to measure how much information has been transmitted as a function of time across a quantum channel after filtering out the noise on a real time basis. In the context of quantum communication theory, we illustrate the situation of an optical fibre wherein the information carrying quantum electromagnetic field interacts with a classical electromagnetic field that has been scattered by the phonon lattice and hence contains unknown Markovian parameters. By estimating the Markovian paremeters using our generalized Belvakin filter on a real time basis, we are therefore able to generate a counter Hamiltonian via causing a simulated counter classical field using this estimated parameter to interact with the propagating quantum field and hence mitigate the effect of the interaction of the classical field with the quantum field. One of the novel results of this paper is the exact representation of the Weyl-Moyal-Wigner transform of products of quantum operators that includes Lie brackets between operators to all orders in Planck’s constant. We use this idea to obtain a classical representation of the quantum Boltzmann equation in terms of Wigner densities that are complex valued functions of position and momenta representing the system state. Future work on Wigner transforming the quantum Boltzmann equation for all r-particle marginal states of an N-particle system is in progress. Work on interpreting the Belavkin filter and quantum Boltzmann equation in the Wigner domain in terms of corrections to the classical Fujisaki-Kushner-Kallianpur stochastic filter and the classical Boltzmann equation is also in progress.

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10.32388/7i67fe

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