TY - JOUR
T1 - The Wigner distribution function
AU - Iafrate, G. J.
AU - Grubin, H. L.
AU - Ferry, D. K.
N1 - Funding Information:
1 Partially supported by the Army Research Office.
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1982/1/4
Y1 - 1982/1/4
N2 - In this letter, the relationship between the characteristic function for two arbitrary noncommuting observables and a generalized Wigner distribution function is established. This distribution function is shown to have no simple interpretation in the sense of probability theory but, in lieu of its special properties, can be used directly for calculating the expectation values of observables.
AB - In this letter, the relationship between the characteristic function for two arbitrary noncommuting observables and a generalized Wigner distribution function is established. This distribution function is shown to have no simple interpretation in the sense of probability theory but, in lieu of its special properties, can be used directly for calculating the expectation values of observables.
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U2 - 10.1016/0375-9601(82)90097-4
DO - 10.1016/0375-9601(82)90097-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:49049139923
VL - 87
SP - 145
EP - 148
JO - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
SN - 0375-9601
IS - 4
ER -