Time-dependent variational principle for the expectation value of an observable: mean-field applications

DOI10.1016/0003-4916(85)90020-XzbMath0611.46072MaRDI QIDQ1087802

Marcel Vénéroni, Roger Ballian

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

transition probabilitiesapproximate dynamicsconjugate variablesexpectation valuestationary valuetime-dependent Hartree-Fock equationmean-field equationaction-like functionalaverages of single-particle observablestime dependent density operatortime-dependent states with maximum entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99) Existence theories for problems in abstract spaces (49J27) Miscellaneous applications of functional analysis (46N99)

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