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arXiv:1010.5898

Quantum Mechanics as Asymptotics of Solutions of Generalized Kramers Equation

E. M. Beniaminov

Published Oct 28, 2010• 6 citations
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Abstract

We consider the process of diffusion scattering of a wave function given on the phase space. In this process the heat diffusion is considered only along momenta. We write down the modified Kramers equation describing this situation. In this model, the usual quantum description arises as asymptotics of this process for large values of resistance of the medium per unit of mass of particle. It is shown that in this case the process passes several stages. During the first short stage, the wave function goes to one of "stationary" values. At the second long stage, the wave function varies in the subspace of "stationary" states according to the Schrodinger equation. Further, dissipation of the process leads to decoherence, and any superposition of states goes to one of eigenstates of the Hamilton operator. At the last stage, the mixed state of heat equilibrium (the Gibbs state) arises due to the heat influence of the medium and the random transitions among the eigenstates of the Hamilton operator. Besides that, it is shown that, on the contrary, if the resistance of the medium per unit of mass of particle is small, then in the considered model, the density of distribution of probability $ρ=|ϕ|^2$ satisfies the standard Liouville equation, as in classical statistical mechanics.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.1010.5898

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We give an example of a mathematical model describing quantum mechanical processes interacting with medium. As a model, we consider the process of heat scattering of a wave function defined on the phase space. We consider the case when the heat diffusion takes place only with respect to momenta. We state and study the corresponding modified Kramers equation for this process. We consider the consequent approximations to this equation in powers of the quantity inverse to the medium resistance per unit of mass of the particle in the process. The approximations are constructed similarly to statistical physics, where from the usual Kramers equation for the evolution of probability density of the Brownian motion of a particle in the phase space, one deduces an approximate description of this process by the Fokker--Planck equation for the density of probability distribution in the configuration space. We prove that the zero (invertible) approximation to our model with respect to the large parameter of the medium resistance, yields the usual quantum mechanical description by the Schrödinger equation with the standard Hamilton operator. We deduce the next approximation to the model with respect to the negative power of the medium resistance coefficient. As a result we obtain the modified Schrödinger equation taking into account dissipation of the process in the initial model.
This work is an extended version of the paper arXiv:0803.2669v1[math-ph], in which the main results were announced. We consider certain classical diffusion process for a wave function on the phase space. It is shown that at the time of order 10−1110^{-11}10−11 {\it sec} this process converges to a process considered by quantum mechanics and described by the Schrodinger equation. This model studies the probability distributions in the phase space corresponding to the wave functions of quantum mechanics. We estimate the parameters of the model using the Lamb--Retherford experimental data on shift in the spectrum of hydrogen atom and the assumption on the heat reason of the considered diffusion process. In the paper it is shown that the quantum mechanical description of the processes can arise as an approximate description of more exact models. For the model considered in this paper, this approximation arises when the Hamilton function changes slowly under deviations of coordinates, momenta, and time on intervals whose length is of order determined by the Planck constant and by the diffusion intensities.
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