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- The classical work by Zwanzig [J. Stat. Phys. 9 (1973) 215-220] derived Langevin dynamics from a Hamiltonian system of a heavy particle coupled to a heat bath. This work extends Zwanzig's model to a quantum system and formulates a more general coupling between a particle system and a heat bath. The main result proves, for a particular heat bath model, that ab initio Langevin molecular dynamics, with a certain rank one friction matrix determined by the coupling, approximates for any temperature canonical quantum observables, based on the system coordinates, more accurately than any Hamiltonian system in these coordinates, for large mass ratio between the system and the heat bath nuclei.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)
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- Quantum mechanics
- heat bath dynamics
- generalized Langevin dynamics
- classical Langevin dynamics
- weak convergence
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- art (subject category)
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