Origin of negative values of the Wigner distribution function

Optik (Jena)

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 179-183

  Dragoman, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

WIGNER DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0033735614     PISSN: 00304026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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