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Trudy Mat. Inst. Steklova, 2021 Volume 313, Pages 23–32 (Mi tm4195)

On the Inversion Formula of Linear Quantization and the Evolution Equation for the Wigner Function

L. A. Borisova, Yu. N. Orlovab

a Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Miusskaya pl. 4, Moscow, 125047 Russia
b Mechanical Engineering Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Malyi Khariton'evskii per. 4, Moscow, 101990 Russia

Abstract: We consider the inversion problem for linear quantization defined by an integral transformation relating the matrix of a quantum operator to its classical symbol. For an arbitrary linear quantization, we construct evolution equations for the density matrix and the Wigner function. It is shown that the Weyl quantization is the only one for which the evolution equation of the Wigner function is free of a quasi-probability source, which distinguishes this quantization as the only physically adequate one in the class under consideration. As an example, we give an exact stationary solution for the Wigner function of a harmonic oscillator with an arbitrary linear quantization, and construct a sequence of quantizations that approximate the Weyl quantization and tend to it in the weak sense so that the Wigner function remains positive definite.

Keywords: approximating quantization, inverse quantization, Wigner function, evolution equation, stationary solution.

UDC: 517.972

Received: January 20, 2021
Revised: February 5, 2021
Accepted: March 29, 2021

DOI: 10.4213/tm4195


 English version:
Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 2021, 313, 17–26

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