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In this paper the transport of quantum particles in time-dependent random media is studied. In the white noise limit, a quantum model for collisions is obtained. At the level of Wigner equation, this limit is described by a linear Wigner-Boltzmann equation.
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AMS subject classifications: 35Q40, 35S10, 81Q99, 81V99
Á Fredo. Frédéric Poupaud deceased October 13th 2004.
This research was partially supported by the EU financed network IHP-HPRN-CT-2002-00282 and by MCYT (Spain), Proyecto BFM2002–00831.
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Bechouche, P., Poupaud, F. & Soler, J. Quantum Transport and Boltzmann Operators. J Stat Phys 122, 417–436 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-005-8082-y
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