Time evolution of the Husimi and Glauber-Sudarshan functions in terms of complementary Hamiltonian symbols

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15628v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:19:50 GMT
• Title: Time evolution of the Husimi and Glauber-Sudarshan functions in terms of complementary Hamiltonian symbols
• Authors: Mritunjay Tyagi, Simon Friederich,
• Abstract summary: We present a compact, systematic formulation of the dynamics of the Husimi Q- and Glauber-Sudarshan P-phase space distribution functions.<n>The resulting evolution equations have a universal leading structure, the classical Liouvillian drift plus terms with higher-order derivatives of the Hamiltonian.
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• Abstract: We present a compact, systematic formulation of the dynamics of the Husimi Q- and Glauber-Sudarshan P-phase space distribution functions expressed in terms of their \emph{complementary} Hamiltonian symbols: Anti-Wick for Q and Wick for P. The resulting evolution equations have a universal leading structure, the classical Liouvillian drift plus terms with higher-order derivatives of the Hamiltonian. For Hamiltonians no higher than quartic in the moduli of the complex phase space variables $\alpha_i$, the higher-order terms reduce to a second-order Fokker-Planck type term with a \emph{traceless} diffusion matrix, thereby clarifying and recovering recent results for such Hamiltonians within a simple star-product framework. We further derive a transparent Ehrenfest theorem for Wick/Anti-Wick symbols of the operators representing dynamical observables. Using these results, we show that a previously reported nonclassical contribution to the Q-function drift for the anharmonic oscillator is an artifact of the quantization scheme used. Our paper consolidates the formulation of the dynamics of the phase space distribution functions using complementary symbols and provides an efficient route to compute and interpret quantum phase space evolution.

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