Fokker-Planck equations as scaling limits of reversible quantum systems

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 543-601

  Castella, Francois ^a   Erdős, László ^b   Frommlet, Florian ^c   Markowich, Peter A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coupled harmonic oscillators; Fokker Planck equation; Scaling limit; Wigner distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034338421     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018667323830     Document Type: Article

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