A ballistic motion disrupted by quantum reflections

DOI10.1007/S00023-014-0354-0MaRDI QIDQ494852zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeremy Clark

Publication date 2 September 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1205

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Brownian motions and diffusion theory (population genetics, absorption problems, etc.) (60J70) Brownian motion (60J65) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: I study a Lindblad dynamics modeling a quantum test particle in a Dirac comb that collides with particles from a background gas. The main result is a homogenization theorem in an adiabatic limiting regime involving large initial momentum for the test particle. Over the time interval considered, the particle would exhibit essentially ballistic motion if either the singular periodic potential or the kicks from the gas were removed. However, the particle behaves diffusively when both sources of forcing are present. The conversion of the motion from ballistic to diffusive is generated by occasional quantum reflections that result when the test particle's momentum is driven through a collision near to an element of the half-spaced reciprocal lattice of the Dirac comb.

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