In our research, we use Wigner functions primarily to (a) analyze and establish connections between classical soft matter physics and quantum mechanics, and (b) to study foundational problems of quantum and statistical mechanics.

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• Michael te Vrugt, Gyula I Tóth, Raphael Wittkowski, Master equations for Wigner functions with spontaneous collapse and their relation to thermodynamic irreversibility, arXiv:2106.00137 (2021)
• Michael te Vrugt, Raphael Wittkowski, Orientational order parameters for arbitrary quantum systems, Annalen der Physik 532, 2000266 (2020)
• Michael te Vrugt, Hartmut Löwen, Raphael Wittkowski, Classical dynamical density functional theory: from fundamentals to applications, Advances in Physics 69, 121-247 (2020)