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Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space

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arxiv 1104.5269 v2 pith:35DTU2GT submitted 2011-04-27 physics.hist-ph quant-ph

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Ever since Werner Heisenberg's 1927 paper on uncertainty, there has been considerable hesitancy in simultaneously considering positions and momenta in quantum contexts, since these are incompatible observables. But this persistent discomfort with addressing positions and momenta jointly in the quantum world is not really warranted, as was first fully appreciated by Hilbrand Groenewold and Jos\'e Moyal in the 1940s. While the formalism for quantum mechanics in phase space was wholly cast at that time, it was not completely understood nor widely known --- much less generally accepted --- until the late 20th century.

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    Under s-ordered quantization, a Gaussian maps to a valid quantum state for lambda <= (1+s)^{-1}, and for antinormal ordering s=-1 even the delta function becomes the vacuum state.

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