Many-body formalism for thermally excited wave packets: A way to connect the quantum regime to the classical regime

Free classical particles have well-defined momentum and position, while free quantum particles have well-defined momentum but a position fully delocalized over the sample volume. We develop a many-body formalism based on wave-packet operators that connects these two limits, the thermal energy being...

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Main Authors: Combescot, Monique (Author), Chenu, Aurelia (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2017-07-10T15:27:42Z.
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