This Wiki acts as the main hub for the activities of the Wigner Initiative, being a community of researchers which utilizes the Wigner formalism for its research. In particular, this Wiki provides an overview of the currently active researchers as well as their Wigner-specific focus areas, which is being maintained by each of the individual researchers. Also, special events such as conferences, workshops, and publications are brought to the attention of the community via this platform. More details...

• November 6, 2018: New Book on The Wigner Function in Science and Technology by David K. Ferry and Mihail (Mixi) Nedjalkov has been published.
• October 26, 2018: New Review Paper on Recent Advances in Wigner Function Approaches by Josef Weinbub and David K. Ferry has been published.
• September 25, 2018: The program committee for the third International Wigner Workshop has been finalized: Wolfgang Belzig, Franco Nori, Stefano Olivares, and Xavier Oriols join the committe.
• January 27, 2018: The next International Wigner Workshop will be a two-day satellite event of the International Workshop on Computational Nanotechnology (IWCN) 2019 and will be held on May 19-20, 2019 in the Hilton Orrington Evanston, IL, USA, which is located about 19km north of Downtown Chicago.
• September 21, 2017: We are deeply saddened that Hideaki Tsuchiya passed away.
• June, 2017: We have successfully held our second International Wigner Workshop in Low Wood Bay, UK on June 5, 2017. We hosted 54 registered participants, 10 invited speakers, 11 regular speakers, and 5 poster presentations. The Book of Abstracts is online.
• February, 2017: Wolfgang Belzig, Philippe Dollfus, Peter Domokos, Dario Ferraro, Basil J. Hiley, Carlo Jacoboni, Hans Kastrup, Orazio Muscato, Stefano Olivares, and Xavier Oriols are confirmed invited speakers for International Wigner Workshop 2017
• December, 2016: Wigner Initiative receives US Office of Naval Research Global CSP grant to organize International Wigner Workshop 2017
• October, 2016: Basil J. Hiley is a confirmed Invited Speaker at our International Wigner Workshop 2017
• September 15, 2016: Open PhD position at TU Wien
• March 1, 2016: Decision on host conference for our 2nd International Wigner Workshop: IWCN 2017 in Lake District, England, UK
• December 1, 2015: Jean Michel Sellier recorded a new video lecture “The Signed Particle Formulation of Non-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics”. Watch on YouTube.
• November 29, 2015: The 1st International Wigner Workshop (IW2), chaired by David K. Ferry and Josef Weinbub, has concluded.
• November 17-24, 2015: Jean Michel Sellier gave a lecture series on “Quantum Mechanics Without Wave Functions: From Wigner to Signed Particles” at the Physics Department of the University of Antwerp, Belgium hosted by Wim Magnus.
• October 23, 2015: Basil J. Hiley gave a talk on “Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space: How to Make the Impossible Possible via von Neumann, Wigner-Moyal and Bohm” at the Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien hosted by Josef Weinbub. Watch on YouTube
• October 18, 2015: We are deeply saddened that Todor Vassilev Gramtchev passed away.
• September 17, 2015: Special Issue on Wigner Functions, edited by Mihail (Mixi) Nedjalkov, Josef Weinbub and David K. Ferry has been published in JCEL 14(4).
• July 22-24, 2015: David K. Ferry and Irena Knezevic visited the Institute for Microelectronics, TU Wien for a Wigner Meeting, hosted by Mihail (Mixi) Nedjalkov, Paul Ellinghaus, and Josef Weinbub.

Particular motivations for creating the Wigner Initiative and this Wiki are to increase synergy effects and to foster knowledge transfer within the community. Looking at the development of research in Wigner functions, critics claim that, although various groups pick up the work, they abandon it again, never delivering a compelling research result, in turn being essential to the justification of the approach in general. A clear presentation of the evolution in the field is needed.

List of Publication History

The following alphabetically ordered list gives an overview of the currently involved researchers. Each entry provides additional information on the particular researcher.

Peter Adam - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Shaikh S. Ahmed - Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
Zlatan Aksamija - University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
Gernot Alber - TU Darmstadt, Germany
Miguel A. Alonso - University of Rochester, USA
Joachim Ankerhold - University of Ulm, Germany
Anton Arnold - TU Wien, Austria
Andrew Armour - University of Nottingham, UK
Luigi Barletti - University of Florence, Italy
Sylvain Barraud - CEA-Leti, France
Ryan Behunin - Northern Arizona University, USA
Wolfgang Belzig - University of Konstanz, Germany
Raymond Bishop - University of Manchester, UK
Irene Burghardt - Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Paolo Bordone - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Christoph Bruder - University of Basel, Switzerland
Wei Cai - University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
William B. Case - Grinnell College, USA
Johann Cervenka - TU Wien, Austria
Leon Cohen - Hunter College, USA
Stephen Creagh - University of Nottingham, UK
Oscar C O Dahlsten - University of Oxford, UK
Pascal Degiovanni - Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon, France
Pierre Degond - Imperial College London, UK
Lucio Demeio - Marche Polytechnic University, Italy
Nuno Costa Dias - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Maurice de Gosson - University of Vienna, Austria
Ivan Dimov - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Philippe Dollfus - CNRS, University of Paris-Sud, France
Andras Dombi - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Peter Domokos - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Roland Donninger - University of Vienna, Austria
Antonius Dorda - TU Graz, Austria
Maxim A. Efremov - Ulm University, Germany
Paul Ellinghaus - Infineon, Germany
Mark Everitt - Loughborough University, UK
Hong-Yi Fan - University of Science and Technology of China, China
Hans Georg Feichtinger - University of Vienna, Austria
Dario Ferraro - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Graphene Labs, Italy
David K. Ferry - Arizona State University, USA
Gwendal Fève - Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France
Victor Fleurov - Tel Aviv University, Israel
Akira Furusawa - University of Tokyo, Japan
Christopher C. Gerry - City University of New York, USA
Enno Giese - University of Ottawa, Canada
Christian Glattli - CEA Saclay, France
Thierry Goudon - INRIA, France
Gabriele Gradoni - University of Nottingham, UK
Todor Vassilev Gramtchev - University of Cagliari, Italy
Harold Grubin - University of Connecticut, USA
Michael J. Hartmann - Heriot-Watt University, UK
Clemens Heitzinger - TU Wien, Austria and Arizona State University, USA
Basil J. Hiley - University College London, UK
Gerald J Iafrate - North Carolina State University, USA
Carlo Jacoboni - University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Haiyan Jiang - Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Olafur Jonasson - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Christoph Jungemann - RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Dmitry Karlovets - Tomsk State University, Russia
Kyoung-Youm Kim - Sejong University, Republic of Korea
Irena Knezevic - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Peter Knight - Imperial College London, UK
Robert Kosik - TU Wien, Austria
Hans Kosina - TU Wien, Austria
Joon-Ho Lee - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Ci Lei - University of Bradford, UK
Gerd Leuchs - Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Ruo Li - Peking University, China
Robert Lie - Peking University, China
Tiao Lu - Peking University, China
Franz Luef - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Alexander Lvovsky - University of Calgary, Canada
Wim Magnus - University of Antwerp, Belgium and IMEC, Belgium
Giovanni Manfredi - Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, France
Florian Marquardt - Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Germany
Norbert J. Mauser - University of Vienna and Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Austria
Christian B. Mendl - Stanford University, USA
Omar Morandi - University of Strasbourg, France
Orazio Muscato - University of Catania, Italy
Jan Naudts - University of Antwerp, Belgium
Mihail (Mixi) Nedjalkov - TU Wien, Austria and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Kae Nemoto - National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Maziar Noei - RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Franco Nori - RIKEN, Japan and University of Michigan, USA
Stefano Olivares - University of Milan, Italy
Xavier Oriols - Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Alfredo Miguel Ozorio de Almeida - Brazilian Center for Research in Physics, Brasil
Ram Bilas Pachori - Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
Jonathan Petruccelli - State University of New York at Albany, USA
Guillem Albareda Piquer - Max Plank Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Germany
Walter Poetz - University of Graz, Austria
Eric Polizzi - University of Massachusetts, USA
Hans Kastrup - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Germany
João Nuno Prata - University of Lisbon, Portugal
Damien Querlioz - CNRS, University of Paris-Sud, France
Doris Reiter - University of Münster, Germany
Christian Ringhofer Arizona State University, USA
Fausto Rossi - Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Stefan Rotter - TU Wien, Austria
Albert Roura - Ulm University, Germany
John Samson - Loughborough University, UK
Ademir Eugênio de Santana - Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil
Stephan Schiller - Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
Wolfgang Schleich - University of Ulm, Germany
Ferdinand Schürrer - TU Graz, Austria
Dirk Schulz - TU Dortmund, Germany
Siegfried Selberherr - TU Wien, Austria
Kouichi Semba - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Sihong Shao - Peking University, China
Mincheol Shin - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea
Bartlomiej Spisak - AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Herbert Spohn - TU München, Germany
Ole Steuernagel - University of Hertfordshire, UK
Zhangpeng Sun - Peking University, China
Ting-wei Tang - University of Massachusetts, USA
Gregor Tanner - University of Nottingham, UK
Todd Tilma - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Fabricio Toscano - Federal University of Rio deJaneiro, Brazil
Massimo Trovato - University of Catania, Italy
Hideaki Tsuchiya - Kobe University, Japan
Maarten Van de Put - University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Michael R. Vanner - Imperial College London, UK
Dragica Vasileska - Arizona State University, USA
Apostol Vourdas - University of Bradford, UK
Andras Vukics - Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Reinhold Walser - TU Darmstadt, Germany
Jian-Hua Wang - Shaanxi University of Technology, China
Josef Weinbub - TU Wien, Austria
Daniel Wigger - University of Münster, Germany
Sabine Wölk - University of Innsbruck, Austria
Maciej Woloszyn - AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
Robert Wyatt - The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Nicola Zamponi - TU Wien, Austria
Zhengyun Zhang - Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, Singapore

David K. Ferry - Arizona State University, USA
Irena Knezevic - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Mihail (Mixi) Nedjalkov - TU Wien, Austria and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Siegfried Selberherr - TU Wien, Austria
Josef Weinbub - TU Wien, Austria

There are currently no open positions available.

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding the Wigner Initiative please contact Josef Weinbub.