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An infinite-temperature limit for a quantum scattering process

Mathematical Physics 2015-05-13 v3 math.MP

Abstract

We study a quantum dynamical semigroup driven by a Lindblad generator with a deterministic Schr\"odinger part and a noisy Poission-timed scattering part. The dynamics describes the evolution of a test particle in Rn\R^{n}, n=1,2,3n=1,2,3, immersed in a gas, and the noisy scattering part is defined by the reduced effect of an individual interaction, where the interaction between the test particle and a single gas particle is via a repulsive point potential. In the limit that the mass ratio λ=mM\lambda=\frac{m}{M} tends to zero and the collisions become more frequent as 1λ\frac{1}{\lambda}, we show that our dynamics Φt,λ\Phi_{t,\lambda} approaches a limiting dynamics Φt,λ\Phi_{t,\lambda}^{\diamond} with second order error. Working in the Heisenberg representation, for G\Bi(L2(Rn))G\in \Bi(L^{2}(\R^{n})) n=1,3n=1,3 we bound the difference between Φt,λ(G)\Phi_{t,\lambda}(G) and Φt,λ(G)\Phi_{t,\lambda}^{\diamond}(G) in operator norm proportional to λ2\lambda^{2}.

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@article{arxiv.0801.0722,
  title  = {An infinite-temperature limit for a quantum scattering process},
  author = {Jeremy Clark},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0722},
  year   = {2015}
}

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18 pages

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