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Anharmonic effects on phase-space quantum profiles: an exact approach

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, , Citation Alex E Bernardini and Caio Fernando e Silva 2020 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1612 012002 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/1612/1/012002

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Abstract

Given its well known spectral decomposition profile, the 1-dim harmonic oscillator potential modified by an inverse square (1-dim angular momentum-like) contribution works as an efficient platform for probing classical and quantum information quantifiers in the context of the phase-space Weyl-Wigner formalism. In particular, the phase-space informational content related to the canonical ensemble driven by such a singular oscillator can be quantified in terms of well established analytical structures. Considering that, on one hand, the singular oscillator produce a spectral decomposition profile equivalent to that one of the unmodified harmonic system – in the sense that they result into identical thermodynamic statistics, even for different statistical mixtures – on the other hand, a more complete scrutinization of their phase-space information content can capture some different aspects of the encoded information for the related quantum ensembles. Besides the identification of decoherence effects, the Wigner flow analysis is presumedly useful in identifying stable quantum configurations, according to finite temperature and interaction parameter values. Unexpectedly, our results show that the equivalence between the statistical (quantum) mechanics of the anharmonic singular oscillator and an ordinary harmonic oscillator can also be extended to the phase-space quantum purity quantifier, which is analytically computed and reproduces exactly the same quantum ensemble statistical mixture profile, which does not depend on interaction parameter values.

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10.1088/1742-6596/1612/1/012002