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View SchemaThe Partition Function in the Wigner-Kirkwood expansion
| Authors | S. G. Matinyan, B. Müller |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0602041 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602041 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0305-4470/39/18/L05 |
| Journal | J.Phys. A39 (2006) L285-L292 |
Abstract
We study the semiclassical Wigner-Kirkwood (WK) expansion of the partition function $Z(t)$ for arbitrary even homogeneous potentials, starting from the Bloch equation. As is well known, the phase-space kernel of $Z$ satisfies the so-called Uhlenbeck-Beth equation, which depends on the gradients of the potential. We perform a chain of transformations to obtain novel forms of this equation that invite analogies with various physical phenomena and formalisms, such as diffusion processes, the Fokker-Planck equation, and supersymmetric quantum mechanics.
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