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arxiv: 0805.0503 · v2 · pith:N6YFNPE6new · submitted 2008-05-05 · ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech · math.PR· quant-ph

Levy processes and Schroedinger equation

classification ❄️ cond-mat.stat-mech math.PRquant-ph
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We analyze the extension of the well known relation between Brownian motion and Schroedinger equation to the family of Levy processes. We consider a Levy-Schroedinger equation where the usual kinetic energy operator - the Laplacian - is generalized by means of a selfadjoint, pseudodifferential operator whose symbol is the logarithmic characteristic of an infinitely divisible law. The Levy-Khintchin formula shows then how to write down this operator in an integro--differential form. When the underlying Levy process is stable we recover as a particular case the fractional Schroedinger equation. A few examples are finally given and we find that there are physically relevant models (such as a form of the relativistic Schroedinger equation) that are in the domain of the non-stable, Levy-Schroedinger equations.

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