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arxiv: 0808.0326 · v4 · pith:W7KQVKZNnew · submitted 2008-08-04 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech

Towards nonlinear quantum Fokker-Planck equations

classification 🪐 quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mech
keywords semiclassicalquantumequationsbrownianderivedequationfokker-plancknonlinear
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It is demonstrated how the equilibrium semiclassical approach of Coffey et al. can be improved to describe more correctly the evolution. As a result a new semiclassical Klein-Kramers equation for the Wigner function is derived, which remains quantum for a free quantum Brownian particle as well. It is transformed to a semiclassical Smoluchowski equation, which leads to our semiclassical generalization of the classical Einstein law of Brownian motion derived before. A possibility is discussed how to extend these semiclassical equations to nonlinear quantum Fokker-Planck equations based on the Fisher information.

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