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English: The Wigner function of a simple harmonic oscillator at different levels of excitations. The are rescaled by in order to show that the Wigner function oscillates within that radius, and decays rapidly outside of that radius.

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import numpy as np
from scipy.special import laguerre
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import cm

def Wigner(n, q, p):
  r_squared = (n+1) * (q**2 + p**2)
  return ((-1)**n / (np.pi)) * np.exp(-2 * r_squared) * laguerre(n, monic=False)(4 * r_squared)

q = np.linspace(-1, 1, 100)
p = np.linspace(-1, 1, 100)
Q, P = np.meshgrid(q, p)

n_values = [[0, 1, 2],
            [5, 10, 20]]

plot_y = len(n_values[0])
plot_x = len(n_values)
image_width = 6
fig, axes = plt.subplots(plot_x, plot_y, figsize=(image_width*plot_y, image_width*plot_x), subplot_kw={"projection": "3d"})


for i in range(plot_x):
  for j in range(plot_y):
    n = n_values[i][j]
    W = Wigner(n, Q, P)
    ax = axes[i][j]
    ax.contourf(Q, P, W, zdir='z', offset=-1/(np.pi), cmap='coolwarm')
    ax.contourf(Q, P, W, zdir='x', offset=-1, cmap='coolwarm', alpha=0.8)
    # ax.contourf(Q, P, W, zdir='y', offset=3, cmap='coolwarm')

    ax.plot_surface(Q, P, W, vmin=W.min() * 2, cmap=cm.Blues, alpha=0.8)
    ax.set_title(f"n = {n}")

    # ax.set_xlabel("q")
    # ax.set_ylabel("p")
    ax.set_zlim(-1/(np.pi), 1/(np.pi))
plt.tight_layout()
plt.savefig("wigner_sho.png")
plt.show()

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