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For a quantum harmonic oscillator, an explicit expression that describes the energy distribution as a coordinate function is obtained. The presence of the energy function poles is shown for the quantum system in domains where the Wigner function has negative values.
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This work was supported by the RFBR No. 18-29-10014. This research was supported by the Interdisciplinary Scientific and Educational School of Moscow University “Photonic and Quantum Technologies. Digital Medicine.”
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Appendices
Appendix A
From equations (6), (8), (9), (10), (17) and (16) for a harmonic oscillator, it follows that
where in the one-dimensional case (9) the notation of \(P_{\mu \lambda }\) is changed to \(P\)
where \(S_{2,n} = {\text{Ln}} f_{2,n}\) Rewriting condition (7) in the form \(P_{\mu \lambda } = - \alpha^{2} f_{1,n} \frac{{\partial^{2} S_{1,n} }}{{\partial x^{\mu } \partial x^{\lambda } }}\), \(S_{1,n} = {\text{Ln}} f_{1,n}\), we obtain
Substitute the distribution functions (14) into expressions (A.1) and (A.2). Let us start with expression (A.1).
where \(B_{n} = \frac{{\left( { - 1} \right)^{n} }}{{2\pi \sigma_{v} \sigma_{x} }}\) Averaging expression (A.3) using (A.1), we obtain
where we take into account that \(L_{n}^{\prime } = L^{\prime}_{n - 1} - L_{n - 1}\), \(L_{s}^{{\left( {\mu + 1} \right)}} = \sum\limits_{k = 0}^{s} {L_{k}^{\left( \mu \right)} }\) Considering the expression \(L_{n}^{\left( \mu \right)} \left( x \right) = L_{n}^{{\left( {\mu + 1} \right)}} \left( x \right) - L_{n - 1}^{{\left( {\mu + 1} \right)}} \left( x \right)\) which at \(\mu = 0\) will be \(L_{n}^{{}} \left( x \right) = L_{n}^{\left( 1 \right)} \left( x \right) - L_{n - 1}^{\left( 1 \right)} \left( x \right)\), expression (A.4) will take the form:
The generalized Laguerre polynomials satisfy the relations
Substituting (A.6) into (A.4), we obtain
where
Expression (A.7) allows representing the square of the Hermite polynomials \(H_{n}^{2}\) in terms of the Laguerre polynomials \(L_{k}^{{}}\) Let us calculate the integral (A.8).
Considering that \(\int\limits_{ - \infty }^{ + \infty } {e^{{ - \tau^{2} }} L_{k} \left( {2\tau^{2} } \right)} \,d\tau = \left( { - 1} \right)^{k} \frac{\sqrt \pi }{{2^{k} k!}}H_{k}^{2} \left( 0 \right)\), we get
and hence
Substituting (A.10) into expression (A.9), we obtain
Then, let us carry out a similar substitution procedure for the integrals \(J_{k - 2}\) and \(J_{k - 3}\):
The expression for \(J_{0}\) has the form
Let us consider the even (\(k = 2m\)) and odd (\(k = 2m + 1\)) values for the expression \(J_{k}\) Proceeding with the iterative procedure expression (A.13) for \(J_{2m}\) takes the form:
Similarly, for \(J_{2m + 1}\) we obtain
Comparing (A.15) and (A.16), we obtain a general expression for \(J_{k}\)
To transform expression (A.7), let us calculate the sum \(J_{k} + J_{k - 1}\) using (A.17)
Substituting (A.18) into (A.7), we get
Expression (A.19) can be rewritten in a compact form using the Heaviside function
Using (A.20), expression (A.19) takes the following form:
where
Now let us consider expression (A.2). First of all, we calculate the expression \(\frac{{\partial^{2} S_{1} }}{{\partial x^{2} }}\) in (A.2)
And find \(\left\langle {v^{2} } \right\rangle\)
since \(\int\limits_{ - \infty }^{ + \infty } {v^{2} e^{{ - \frac{{v^{2} }}{{2\sigma_{v}^{2} }}}} L_{k}^{{}} \left( {\frac{{v^{2} }}{{\sigma_{v}^{2} }}} \right)dv = } 2\sqrt 2 \sigma_{v}^{3} J_{k}\) Substituting (A.17) into (A.23), we obtain
where
Appendix B
Let us calculate
and taking into account the differentiation formula for the Hermite polynomials \(H_{n}^{\prime } \left( y \right) = 2nH_{n - 1} \left( y \right)\) and the orthogonality condition, we obtain the following expression:
where relation (1.4) is taken into account. By virtue of the symmetry of expressions (1.6) and (1.8), we can rewrite the expression \(\left\langle {\left\langle {x^{2} } \right\rangle } \right\rangle_{n}\) in a similar way
Appendix C
Let us derive the quantum potential (6) for the function \(f_{1,n}\) (1.5):
where \(c_{n}^{ - 1} = 2^{n} n!\sqrt {2\pi } \sigma_{x}\), \(y = \frac{x}{{\sqrt 2 \sigma_{x}^{{}} }}\), \(H_{n}^{\prime } = 2nH_{n - 1}\) Taking recurrent relationship \(H_{n} - 2yH_{n - 1} + 2\left( {n - 1} \right)H_{n - 2} = 0\) into account, expression (C.2) will take the following form:
Substituting (C.1) and (C.3) into (6), we get
where relations (1.4) are taken into account.
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Perepelkin, E.E., Sadovnikov, B.I., Inozemtseva, N.G. et al. The Wigner function negative value domains and energy function poles of the harmonic oscillator. J Comput Electron 20, 2148–2158 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-021-01747-y
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