Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Propagator and Resolvent
- 2 The WKB Method and Nonperturbative Effects
- 3 The Phase Space Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
- 4 The Path Integral Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
- 5 Metastable States
- Appendix A Asymptotic Series and Borel Resummation
- Appendix B Special Functions
- Appendix C Gaussian Integration
- References
- Index
3 - The Phase Space Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Propagator and Resolvent
- 2 The WKB Method and Nonperturbative Effects
- 3 The Phase Space Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
- 4 The Path Integral Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
- 5 Metastable States
- Appendix A Asymptotic Series and Borel Resummation
- Appendix B Special Functions
- Appendix C Gaussian Integration
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter presents Wigner’s approach to quantum mechanics, based on the Wigner function in phase space. It explains Wigner–Weyl quantization, which makes it possible to associate functions on phase space to wave functions and operators, and it develops the technology to do quantum mechanics in this formalism. This includes the star product, Moyal evolution,and star-eigenvalue equations. It also develops semiclassical methods in this formulation, and it has a section on Berry’s semiclassical formula for the Wigner function in one-dimensional systems.
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- Advanced Topics in Quantum Mechanics , pp. 114 - 158Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021