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Exact Stochastic Reformulation of Non-Relativistic Quantum Dynamics

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We show that any non-relativistic quantum N-body dynamics problem with pairwise interactions can be exactly reformulated in terms of N well behaved 1-body stochastic density equations. Specifically, the time evolving N-body density matrix is written as an average of tensor products of 1-body densities each of which obeys a stochastic evolution equation. Such decompositions can be constructed for any mixture of fermions and bosons. The evolution equations for the 1-body densities preserve norm, Hermiticity and positivity.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0407036,
  title  = {Exact Stochastic Reformulation of Non-Relativistic Quantum Dynamics},
  author = {Murat Cetinbas and Joshua Wilkie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0407036},
  year   = {2007}
}
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