Passage from quantum to classical molecular dynamics in the presence of Coulomb Interactions

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1490-1515

  Ambrosio, Luigi ^a   Friesecke, Gero ^b   Giannoulis, Johannes ^b  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liouville equation; Quantum dynamics; Singular potentials; Wigner transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954269399     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605301003657835     Document Type: Article

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