Koopman wavefunctions and classical states in hybrid quantum-classical dynamics (Q2086016)

The authors study the interaction dynamics for systems with classical and quantum degrees of freedom. The second section is a large and excellent review of the Koopman-van Hove (KvH) approach of classical mechanics. This classical KvH theory is extended in Section 3 in order to include the coupling to a quantum system. The variational structure of the quantum-classical wave equation is studied in Section 4 upon using the exact factorization of the hybrid wavefunction. Section 5 provides the formulation of the closure model ensuring that the classical density retains its initial sign. A conclusive discussion is the content of the last section which ends with a list of open problems.