On the dynamics of Bohmian measures

DOI10.1007/S00205-012-0528-1zbMATH Open1256.35171arXiv1011.5361OpenAlexW2963110038MaRDI QIDQ2276337FDOQ2276337

Thierry Paul, Peter Alexander Markowich, Christof Sparber

Publication date: 5 November 2012

Published in: Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The present work is devoted to the study of dynamical features of Bohmian measures, recently introduced by the authors. We rigorously prove that for sufficiently smooth wave functions the corresponding Bohmian measure furnishes a distributional solution of a nonlinear Vlasov-type equation. Moreover, we study the associated defect measures appearing in the classical limit. In one space dimension, this yields a new connection between mono- kinetic Wigner and Bohmian measures. In addition, we shall study the dynamics of Bohmian measures associated to so-called semi-classical wave packets. For these type of wave functions, we prove local in-measure convergence of a rescaled sequence of Bohmian trajectories towards the classical Hamiltonian flow on phase space. Finally, we construct an example of wave functions whose limiting Bohmian measure is not mono-kinetic but nevertheless equals the associated Wigner measure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.5361

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Vlasov equations (35Q83) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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