The Wigner Function in Science and Technology

by David K. Ferry, Mihail Nedjalkov

This book is designed to give a background to the origins and development of Wigner functions, as well as its mathematical underpinnings. Along the way the authors emphasise the connections, and differences, from the more popular non-equilibrium Green’s function approaches. But, the key importance lies in inclusion of applications of the Wigner function to various fields of science, including quantum information, coherent optics, and superconducting qubits. These disciplines approach it differently, and the goal here is to give a unified background and highlight how it is utilized in the different disciplines.

300 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 2, 2018

About the author

David Keane Ferry Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin, 1966; MSEE, Texas Technical College; 1963) is the Regents' Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University. He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society (1974), IEEE (1987), and the Institute of Physics (2008).