Talk:Phase-space wavefunctions

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Reviewer Note

The following was received from an editor at WikiProject Physics -

-The Draft and its author made a factual Error, in misunderstanding/ignoring Moyal's original formulation of off-diagonal Wigner functions, necessary for QM interference, which does very much handle phases, adequately.

-There have been numerous efforts, since the late 40s, of "plugging" Wigner functions (density matrix) on the right, to simulate "wavefunctions". All of them, have been judged by posterity to be hyper formal and misguided. That is why they are not mentioned in the umbrella phase-space formulation article.

Robert McClenon (talk) 02:49, 27 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]