Husimi-Wigner representation of chaotic eigenstates

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 464, Issue 2094, 2008, Pages 1503-1524

  Toscano, Fabricio ^a,b   Kenfack, Anatole ^c   Carvalho, Andre R R ^d   Rost, Jan M ^c   De Almeida, Alfredo M O ^e  

^a Fundacao Centro de Ciencias e Educacao Superior a Distgncia do Estado do Rio de Janeiro   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e CENTRO BRASILEIRO DE PESQUISAS FÍSICAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chaotic eigenstates; Husimi function; Phase space representations; Semiclassical mechanics; Wigner function

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HILBERT SPACES; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

CHAOTIC EIGENSTATES; HUSIMI FUNCTION; PHASE SPACE REPRESENTATIONS; SEMICLASSICAL MECHANICS; WIGNER FUNCTION;

CHAOTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 42349114478     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2007.0263     Document Type: Article

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