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Around the Quantum Lenard-Balescu equation

Analysis of PDEs 2026-01-09 v3

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 O(N)O(N) by the quantum Lenard--Balescu equation. In the first part of the present article, we justify this equation until time of order O((logN)1δ)O((\log N)^{1-\delta}) (for any δ(0,1)\delta\in(0,1)). 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 d2d\geq 2 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}
}
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