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Derivation of quantum kinetic equation from the Liouville-von Neumann equation

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A quantum Markov kinetic equation is derived from the Liouville—von Neumann equation in the framework of second-order kinetic perturbation theory. The proposed method can be used to obtain an equation that describes the quantum diffusion of a particle in a crystal.

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Moscow Aviation Institute. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 100, No.1, pp. 33–43, July, 1994.

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Bondarev, B.V. Derivation of quantum kinetic equation from the Liouville-von Neumann equation. Theor Math Phys 100, 826–833 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01017320

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