Radiative transport limit of Dirac equations with random electromagnetic field

Abstract

This paper concerns the kinetic limit of the Dirac equation with a random electromagnetic field. We give a detailed mathematical analysis of the radiative transport limit for the phase space energy density of solutions to the Dirac equation. Our derivation is based on a martingale method and a perturbed test function expansion. This requires the electromagnetic field to be a Markovian space-time random field. The main mathematical tool in the derivation of the kinetic limit is the matrix-valued Wigner transform of the vector-valued Dirac solution. The major novelty compared with the scalar (Schrödinger) case is the proof of the weak convergence of cross modes to zero. The propagating modes are shown to converge in an appropriate probabilistic sense to their deterministic limit.