The quantum Vlasov equation
Also appears in collection : Collisionless Boltzmann (Vlasov) equation and modeling of self-gravitating systems and plasmas / Boltzmann sans collisions, Vlasov et modélisation des systèmes auto-gravitants et des plasmas
We present the Quantum Vlasov or Wigner equation as a "phase space" presentation of quantum mechanics that is close to the classical Vlasov equation, but where the "distribution function" $w(x,v,t)$ will in general have also negative values. We discuss the relation to the classical Vlasov equation in the semi-classical asymptotics of small Planck's constant, for the linear case [2] and for the nonlinear case where we couple the quantum Vlasov equation to the Poisson equation [4, 3, 5] and [1]. Recently, in some sort of "inverse semiclassical limit" the numerical concept of solving Schrödinger-Poisson as an approximation of Vlasov-Poisson attracted attention in cosmology, which opens a link to the "smoothed Schrödinger/Wigner numerics" of Athanassoulis et al. (e.g. [6]).
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