Solution of the quantum BBGKY hierarchy for a crystal

G. Kaniadakis

Yu. N. Orlov, Igor Pavlovich Pavlotsky

V. I. Gerasimenko

In the paper we discuss possible approaches to the problem of the rigorous derivation of quantum kinetic equations from underlying many-particle dynamics. For the description of a many-particle evolution we construct solutions of the Cauchy problems of the BBGKY hierarchy and the dual BBGKY hierarchy in suitable Banach spaces. In the framework of the conventional approach to the description of kinetic evolution the mean-field asymptotics of the quantum BBGKY hierarchy solution is constructed. We develop also alternative approaches. One method is based on the construction of the solution asymptotics of the initial-value problem of the quantum dual BBGKY hierarchy. One more approach is based on the generalized quantum kinetic equation that is a consequence of the equivalence of the Cauchy problems of such evolution equation and the BBGKY hierarchy with initial data determined by the one-particle density operator.

Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

M. Yu. Rasulova, Muzaffar Muhammadjanovich Rahmatullaev, Abul Hasan Siddiqi +1 more

V. I. Gerasimenko, D.O. Polishchuk

We consider the problem of the rigorous description of nonequilibrium quantum correlations. Within the framework of an alternative approach to the description of the evolution of states of finitely many particles in terms of correlation operators governed by the von Neumann hierarchy, we derive the nonlinear quantum Bogoliubov–Born–Green–Kirkwood–Yvon (BBGKY) hierarchy for marginal correlation operators that is adopted to the description of quantum infinite‐particle systems as well. A nonperturbative solution of the Cauchy problem of the nonlinear quantum BBGKY hierarchy for marginal correlation operators is constructed. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.