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1Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan.
Abstract:
Validity of the centroid molecular dynamics (CMD) and ring polymer molecular dynamics (RPMD) in quantum liquids is studied on an assumption that momenta of liquid particles relax fast. The projection operator method allows one to derive the generalized Langevin equation including a memory effect for the full-quantum canonical (Kubo-transformed) correlation function. Similar equations for the CMD and RPMD correlation functions can be derived too. The comparison of these equations leads to conditions under which the RPMD and CMD correlation functions agree approximately with the full-quantum canonical correlation function. The condition for the RPMD is that the memory effects of the full-quantum and RPMD equations vanish quickly with the same time constants. The CMD correlation function requires additional conditions concerning static correlation.
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