Truncated Wigner approximation for spins in continuous phase space

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17295v1
• Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:26:55 GMT
• Title: Truncated Wigner approximation for spins in continuous phase space
• Abstract summary: We use the Wigner approximation to describe interacting and / or dissipative many-body spin systems.<n>We derive equations of motion for the Wigner function, which, applying controlled approximations, can be mapped to differential equations.<n>We show that the TWA equations can equivalently be derived within a path-integral approach, provided that the operator products in dissipator are rigorously mapped onto the curved phase space.
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• Abstract: We review the truncated Wigner approximation (TWA) for spins as a computationally inexpensive numerical approximation method to describe interacting and / or dissipative many-body spin systems. Using the Wigner-Moyal mapping from Hilbert space to a suitable phase space, the many-body density matrix is represented by a c-number distribution, the Wigner function. The gauge freedom in continuous phase space can be exploited to find positive Wigner functions for a large class of spin states, including entangled ones. Employing different sets of correspondence rules, we derive equations of motion for the Wigner function, which, applying controlled approximations, can be mapped to stochastic differential equations. This allows a computationally inexpensive simulation of expectation values. Using a phase-space analog of the quantum regression theorem also multi-time correlations and spectra can be obtained. To illustrate the potential of the method, we benchmark the TWA for spins with some exactly solvable problems of interacting, dissipative spin systems, and then discuss its application to collective processes, such as the superradiant emission of light. Extending the TWA to imaginary time furthermore provides a tool to approximately calculate thermal and ground states of spin Hamiltonians. Finally, we show that the TWA stochastic equations can equivalently be derived within a path-integral approach, provided that the operator products in the dissipator are rigorously mapped onto the curved phase space.

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