Information-theoretic significance of the Wigner distribution

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Frieden, B Roy ^a,b   Soffer, Bernard H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVOLUTION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INFORMATION THEORY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

AD HOC TWO-DIMENSIONAL CONVOLUTIONS; MOMENTUM FLUCTUATIONS; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 33751119806     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.052108     Document Type: Article

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