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Main Author: Lone, Irfan
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22693
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contents The Fokker_Planck equation can be derived in a consistent manner through a microscopic approach based on a unified scheme of classical and quantum mechanics. Here we shall derive it through a purely quantum mechanical approach based on the reversible Schrodinger dynamics. We also give a brief discussion of the path integral representation of the Fokker_Planck equation in light of our derivation. We conclude that, because of the use of the representation of eigenstates of the time-independent Hamiltonian in our derivation, the thermodynamical entropy in this case must correspond to a coarse-graining of the quantum entropy.
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spellingShingle Derivation of Fokker-Planck equation from Schrodinger dynamics
Lone, Irfan
Quantum Physics
The Fokker_Planck equation can be derived in a consistent manner through a microscopic approach based on a unified scheme of classical and quantum mechanics. Here we shall derive it through a purely quantum mechanical approach based on the reversible Schrodinger dynamics. We also give a brief discussion of the path integral representation of the Fokker_Planck equation in light of our derivation. We conclude that, because of the use of the representation of eigenstates of the time-independent Hamiltonian in our derivation, the thermodynamical entropy in this case must correspond to a coarse-graining of the quantum entropy.
title Derivation of Fokker-Planck equation from Schrodinger dynamics
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22693