The Weyl representation in classical and quantum mechanics

Physics Report

Volumn 295, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 265-342

  Ozorio De Almeida, Alfredo M ^a,b  

^a CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUT HENRI POINCARÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Path integral; Scars; Variational principle; Wigner function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032020166     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0370-1573(97)00070-7     Document Type: Article

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