Liouville equation

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mathematical expression

Available identifiers

WikidataQ20180666 ScholiaQ20180666MaRDI QIDQ6674267

partial differential equation for the that time rate of change of density of points in phase space, named after Joseph Liouville

Description

Consider a Hamiltonian dynamical system with canonical coordinates and conjugate momenta. Then the phase space distribution determines the probability that the system will be found in the infinitesimal phase space volume.Note the similarity with the quantum Liouville (von Neumann) equation where the Poisson brackets {.,.} are replaced by commutator brackets [.,.]

Defining Formula: $\frac{d\rho }{dt}=\frac{\partial \rho }{\partial t}+\sum _{i=1}^n(\frac{\partial \rho }{\partial q_i}{\dot{q}}_i+\frac{\partial \rho }{\partial p_i}{\dot{p}}_i)$

$H$ represents Hamiltonian function

$\rho$ represents classical density (phase space)

$p$ represents particle momentum

$q$ represents particle position

$t$ represents time

List of assumptions

classical approximation

Described at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville%27s_equation

Related URL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville%27s_theorem_(Hamiltonian)

Further items linking to Liouville equation

Item	Property
classical dynamics model	contains
classical time evolution	contains
von Neumann equation	specialized by

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