From free-evolution to tomographic representation
arXiv:2508.08456
Abstract
We use the free evolution propagator to determine the quantum probability representation (i.e., the general expression of the tomogram) of any one-dimensional system described by a density state. The evolution operator for the considered quantum system is additionally used to establish the corresponding time dependent tomogram. Applications are given for a Gaussian wave packet, the quantum shutter related with the phenomenon of diffraction in time, the double quantum shutter, and a finite potential. A generalisation to describe particle systems is also presented and, in particular, we find the tomogram associated to the 2 particle case occupying in general non-orthogonal states. In the latter case, for a bipartite quantum system, the entanglement properties are established by considering quantum information concepts such as the linear entropy.
19 pages, 5 figures