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A phase space approach to systems with both: classical degrees of freedom and purely quantum discrete ones is discussed. Formulas for the Stratonovich–Weyl quantizer and star product for such systems are proposed. The Wigner function, its properties and the time evolution are presented.
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Przanowski, M., Tosiek, J., Turrubiates, F.J. (2020). The Weyl–Wigner–Moyal Formalism on a Discrete Phase Space. In: Kielanowski, P., Odzijewicz, A., Previato, E. (eds) Geometric Methods in Physics XXXVIII. Trends in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53305-2_20
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