From classical dynamics to continuous time random walks

DOI10.1007/BF01012300MaRDI QIDQ1072229zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Robert Zwanzig

Publication date 1983

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01012300

zbMATH Keywords

classical dynamicscontinuous time random walkquantum mechanical generalized master equationtransition state method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20)

Review text

The migration of a classical dynamical system between regions of configuration space can be treated as a continuous time random walk between these regions. Derivation of a classical analog of the quantum mechanical generalized master equation provides expressions for the waiting time distribution in terms of transition memory functions. A short memory approximation to these memory functions is equivalent to the well-known transition state method. An example is discussed for which this approximation seems reasonable but is entirely wrong.

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