On the asymptotic behavior at the kinetic time of a weakly interacting Fermi gas

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the dynamics of a weakly interacting Fermi gas at the kinetic time regime $t\sim {\lambda }^{-2}$ where $\lambda \ll 1$ is the strength of the interaction potential. We prove that if the initial state is close to equilibrium, then the two-point time correlation function of the many-body quantum dynamics can be computed effectively. In fact, we show that its leading order behavior is determined completely by the collisional frequency of the Boltzmann-Nordheim collision operator at equilibrium. This settles a prediction by Lukkarinen-Spohn, and thus gives a justification of the quantum Boltzmann equation from many-body quantum mechanics.

85 pages, 12 figures