Extracting the physical content of Liouvillian eigenmodes: Semiclassical quantization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.20271v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:17:24 GMT
• Title: Extracting the physical content of Liouvillian eigenmodes: Semiclassical quantization
• Abstract summary: Open quantum systems have distinct right and left eigenstates of the Liouvillian that decay with time and are difficult to interpret.<n>We introduce a physically motivated quasiprobability measure combining the two types of eigenstates that interprets a Liouville eigenmode as a set of coherences.
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• Abstract: Unlike in closed quantum systems where individual energy eigenstates are understood as physical excitations, open quantum systems have distinct right and left eigenstates of the Liouvillian that decay with time and are difficult to interpret. Here we introduce a physically motivated quasiprobability measure combining the two types of eigenstates that interprets a Liouville eigenmode as a set of coherences. This coherence measure is intimately connected to the return probability and allows one to visualize the modes as quasiprobability distributions in a "doubled" phase space. Using this measure we show that, remarkably, an oscillator retains its quantized "orbits" in phase space for a large class of linear and nonlinear damping, thus providing a formulation of semiclassical quantization for open systems. The orbits have measurable dynamical signatures and are broadened in the presence of a thermal bath, similar to energy levels. For quadratic systems, our results yield an extension of the concept of invariant tori, which play a central role in Hamiltonian systems.

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