An elementary aspect of the Weyl-Wigner representation

✍ Scribed by J.P. Dahl; W.P. Schleich

• Book ID: 105357241
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 93 KB
• Volume: 51
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/prop.200310007

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

It is an elementary aspect of the Weyl‐Wigner representation of quantum mechanics that the dynamical phase‐space function corresponding to the square of a quantum‐mechanical operator is, in general, different from the square of the function representing the operator itself. We call attention to some conceptual consequences of this fact.