THE CLASSICAL LIMIT OF A SELF-CONSISTENT QUANTUM-VLASOV EQUATION IN 3D

Abstract

Under natural assumptions on the initial density matrix of a mixed quantum state (Hermitian, non-negative definite, uniformly bounded trace, Hilbert-Schmidt norm and kinetic energy) we prove that accumulation points (as the scaled Planck constant tends to zero) of solutions of a corresponding slightly regularized Wigner-Poisson system are distributional solutions of the classical Vlasov-Poisson system. The result holds for the gravitational and repulsive cases. Also, for every phase-space density in [Formula: see text] (with bounded kinetic energy) we prepare a sequence of density matrices satisfying the above assumptions, such that the given density is the limit of the Wigner transforms of these density matrices.