An infinite-temperature limit for a quantum scattering process

Abstract: We study a quantum dynamical semigroup driven by a Lindblad generator with a deterministic Schr"odinger part and a noisy Poission-timed scattering part. The dynamics describes the evolution of a test particle in

R^{n}

,

n = 1, 2, 3

, immersed in a gas, and the noisy scattering part is defined by the reduced effect of an individual interaction, where the interaction between the test particle and a single gas particle is via a repulsive point potential. In the limit that the mass ratio

l a m b d a = f r a c m M

tends to zero and the collisions become more frequent as

f r a c 1 l a m b d a

, we show that our dynamics

P h i_{t, l a m b d a}

approaches a limiting dynamics

P h i_{t, l a m b d a}^{d i a m o n d}

with second order error. Working in the Heisenberg representation, for

G i n B i (L^{2} (R^{n}))

n = 1, 3

we bound the difference between

P h i_{t, l a m b d a} (G)

and

P h i_{t, l a m b d a}^{d i a m o n d} (G)

in operator norm proportional to

l a m b d a^{2}

.

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