Around the Quantum Lenard-Balescu equation
Abstract
In the mean-field regime, a gas of quantum particles with Boltzmann statistics can be described by the Hartree-Fock equation. This dynamics becomes trivial if the initial distribution of particle is invariant by translation. However, the first correction is given on time of order by the quantum Lenard--Balescu equation. In the first part of the present article, we justify this equation until time of order (for any ). A similar phenomenon exists in the classical setting (with a similar validity time obtained by Duerinckx \cite{Duerinckx}). In a second time, we prove the convergence for dimension of the solutions of the quantum Lenard--Balescu equation to the solutions of its classical counterpart in the semi-classical limit. This problem can be interpreted as a grazing collision limit: the quantum Lenard--Balescu equation looks like a cut-off Boltzmann equation, when the classical one looks like the Landau equation.
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@article{arxiv.2501.06544,
title = {Around the Quantum Lenard-Balescu equation},
author = {Corentin Le Bihan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06544},
year = {2026}
}