Some considerations on the derivation of the nonlinear quantum Boltzmann equation

DOI10.1023/B:JOSS.0000037205.09518.3FzbMATH Open1134.82030arXivmath-ph/0301025OpenAlexW2051683624MaRDI QIDQ2385644FDOQ2385644

Authors: Dario Benedetto, Mario Pulvirenti, Francois Castella, Raffaele Esposito 

Publication date: 12 October 2007

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

Abstract: In this paper we analyze a system of N identical quantum particles in a weak-coupling regime. The time evolution of the Wigner transform of the one-particle reduced density matrix is represented by means of a perturbative series. The expansion is obtained upon iterating the Duhamel formula. For short times, we rigorously prove that a subseries of the latter, converges to the solution of the Boltzmann equation which is physically relevant in the context. In particular, we recover the transition rate as it is predicted by Fermi's Golden Rule. However, we are not able to prove that the quantity neglected while retaining a subseries of the complete original perturbative expansion, indeed vanishes in the limit: we only give plausibility arguments in this direction. The present study holds in any space dimension greater than 2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0301025

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zbMATH Keywords

kinetic equationsquantum systemsweak coupling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

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