Abstract
A new approach to the description of gas kinetics is proposed. The approach is based on a fundamental presumption which states that binary collisions of gas atoms, moving in a chaotic way, can serve as "interior measurements." These "measurements" result in collapses of atomic wave functions. The ensuing decoherence is capable of transforming the wave function of gas atoms into a set of small-size wave packets. Their kinetics is considered in detail. Quantum effects linear in the Planck constant are taken into account. (c) 1996 American Institute of Physics.
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