Lecture 16 - Gallery of Wigner functions¶

Author: J. R. Johansson (robert@riken.jp), https://jrjohansson.github.io/

This lecture series was developed by J.R. Johannson. The original lecture notebooks are available here.

This is a slightly modified version of the lectures, to work with the current release of QuTiP. You can find these lectures as a part of the qutip-tutorials repository. This lecture and other tutorial notebooks are indexed at the QuTiP Tutorial webpage.

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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from IPython.display import display
from qutip import (about, basis, coherent, coherent_dm, displace, fock, ket2dm,
                   plot_wigner, squeeze, thermal_dm)

%matplotlib inline

Introduction¶

Parameters¶

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N = 20

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def plot_wigner_2d_3d(psi):
    fig = plt.figure(figsize=(17, 8))

    ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 2, 1)
    plot_wigner(psi, fig=fig, ax=ax, alpha_max=6)

    ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 2, 2, projection="3d")
    plot_wigner(psi, fig=fig, ax=ax, projection="3d", alpha_max=6)

    plt.close(fig)
    return fig

Vacuum state: $\left|0\right>$¶

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psi = basis(N, 0)
plot_wigner_2d_3d(psi)

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Thermal states¶

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psi = thermal_dm(N, 2)
plot_wigner_2d_3d(psi)

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Coherent states: $\left|\alpha\right>$¶

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psi = coherent(N, 2.0)
plot_wigner_2d_3d(psi)

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