THE LINEAR BOLTZMANN EQUATION AS THE LOW DENSITY LIMIT OF A RANDOM SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION

DOI10.1142/S0129055X0500242XzbMath1085.82012arXivmath-ph/0412044MaRDI QIDQ5711053

László Erdős, David Eng

Publication date: 9 December 2005

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0412044

zbMATH Keywords

Anderson model; Lorentz gas; scattering cross-section; Boltzmann-Grad limit; Husimi function; quantum Boltzmann equation; Boltzman-Grad low density limit; linear Boltzman equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

35Q40: PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics

81Q15: Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory

82C70: Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics

35R60: PDEs with randomness, stochastic partial differential equations

82C44: Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics

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