2000/12/22 by Bassano Vacchini
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum Information and Cryptography #cond-mat.stat-mech #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.63.066115
published as Phys. Rev. E 63 (2001) 066115 · 9 pages, revtex, no figures
arxiv created 2000/12/22 · openalex publication_date 2001/05/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A master equation with a Lindblad structure is derived, which describes the interaction of a test particle with a macroscopic system and is expressed in terms of the operator valued dynamic structure factor of the system. In the case of a free Fermi or Bose gas the result is evaluated in the Brownian limit, thus obtaining a single generator master equation for the description of quantum Brownian motion in which the correction due to quantum statistics is explicitly calculated. The friction coefficients for Boltzmann and Bose or Fermi statistics are compared.