Diffusion from deterministic dynamics

I discuss a renormalization group method to derive diffusion from time reversible quantum or classical microscopic dynamics. I start with the problem of return to equilibrium and derivation of Brownian motion for a quantum particle interacting with a field of phonons or photons and then discuss how the method could be extended to classical coupled maps or coupled Hamiltonian systems.

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University of Helsinki; Member, School of Mathematics

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