Towards the quantum Brownian motion
Abstract
We consider random Schr\"odinger equations on or for with uncorrelated, identically distributed random potential. Denote by the coupling constant and the solution with initial data . Suppose that the space and time variables scale as with , where is a sufficiently small universal constant. We prove that the expectation value of the Wigner distribution of , , converges weakly to a solution of a heat equation in the space variable for arbitrary initial data in the weak coupling limit . The diffusion coefficient is uniquely determined by the kinetic energy associated to the momentum .
Cite
@article{arxiv.math-ph/0503001,
title = {Towards the quantum Brownian motion},
author = {Laszlo Erdos and Manfred Salmhofer and Horng-Tzer Yau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0503001},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Self-contained overview (Conference proceedings). The complete proof is archived in math-ph/0502025. Some typos corrected and new references added in the updated version