Thermo-quantum diffusion

DOI10.1007/S10773-008-9836-5zbMATH Open1172.81301arXiv0803.4409OpenAlexW3099958641MaRDI QIDQ732271FDOQ732271

Roumen Tsekov

Publication date: 9 October 2009

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A new approach to thermo-quantum diffusion is proposed and a nonlinear quantum Smoluchowski equation is derived, which describes classical diffusion in the field of the Bohm quantum potential. A nonlinear thermo-quantum expression for the diffusion front is obtained, being a quantum generalization of the classical Einstein law. The quantum diffusion at zero temperature is also described and a new dependence of the position dispersion on time is derived. A stochastic Bohm-Langevin equation is also proposed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4409

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zbMATH Keywords

diffusionBohmian mechanicsLangevin equationquantum Brownian motionnonlinear quantum Smoluchowski equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20)

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