Diffusive limit for a quantum linear Boltzmann dynamics

DOI10.1007/S00023-012-0223-7MaRDI QIDQ2377326zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeremy Clark

Publication date 28 June 2013

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.2439

zbMATH Keywords

density matrixdiffusive limitparticle's position distributionquantum linear Boltzmann dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C22) Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: In this article, I study the diffusive behavior for a quantum test particle interacting with a dilute background gas. The model I begin with is a reduced picture for the test particle dynamics given by a quantum linear Boltzmann equation in which the gas particle scattering is assumed to occur through a hard-sphere interaction. The state of the particle is represented by a density matrix that evolves according to a translation-covariant Lindblad equation. The main result is a proof that the particle's position distribution converges to a Gaussian under diffusive rescaling.

Review text

The author studies the diffusive behavior for a quantum test particle interacting with a dilute background gas. Under the assumption that the gas particle scattering occurs through a hard-sphere interaction, and the test particle dynamics is governed by a quantum linear Boltzmann equation, he results in a reduced model. For the reduced model, he shows that the state of the particle can be represented by a density matrix that evolves according to a translation-covariant Lindblad equation. Furthermore, he proves that the particle's position distribution converges asymptotically to a Gaussian under diffusive rescaling.

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