On the quantum Boltzmann equation

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DOI10.1023/B:JOSS.0000037224.56191.EDzbMATH Open1142.82346arXivmath-ph/0302034OpenAlexW2062026442MaRDI QIDQ2385643FDOQ2385643

László Erdős, Horng-Tzer Yau, Manfred Salmhofer

Publication date: 12 October 2007

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a nonrigorous derivation of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation from the Schrodinger evolution of interacting fermions. The argument is based mainly on the assumption that a quasifree initial state satisfies a property called restricted quasifreeness in the weak coupling limit at any later time. By definition, a state is called restricted quasifree if the four-point and the eight-point functions of the state factorize in the same manner as in a quasifree state.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0302034




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