Derivation of the Landau-Pekar equations in a many-body mean-field limit (Q2662030)

The authors consider the dynamics of bosonic particles interacting with a quantized phonon field described by the Fröhlich model in a mean field regime where many bosonic particles weakly couple to the quantized phonon field. The authors show that the asymptotic dynamics of the system in this limit is ruled by the Landau-Pekar equations. This work provides the first derivation of the Landau-Pekar equations in a limit in which the back-reaction of the phonons that are created during time evolution is of leading order. The result includes explicit error estimates too.