This is a Wigner distribution of a particular equilibrium mixed state in an anharmonic potential well. Entropy is 3.739*k.
<p>It is the equilibrated counterpart of the dynamic motion seen below, i.e., it is what would be obtained by time-averaging that motion.
This image was generated using the same source code as that animation, see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamiltonian_flow_quantum.webm" title="File:Hamiltonian flow quantum.webm">File:Hamiltonian flow quantum.webm</a>.
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2020-06-30
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