Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8188497 Physics Letters B 2013 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
Using a pair of linear invariant operators satisfying the Liouville-von Neumann equation, we find the most general thermal density operator and Wigner function for time-dependent generalized oscillators. The general Wigner function has five free parameters and describes the thermal Wigner function about a classical trajectory in phase space. The contour of the Wigner function depicts an elliptical orbit with a constant area moving about the classical trajectory, whose eccentricity determines the squeezing of the initial vacuum.
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