Mori projection method

It is now desirable to deal with the nonclassical behavior of the kernel in the linear laws in a precise, formal way. Of course, one could simply try to improve the crude method just discussed such an approach is perfectly valid. However, we feel that an alternate procedure, which has almost always been used in the literature, is preferable. Mori s method allows the writing of equations with well-behaved kernels if the proper set of variables is chosen. The kernel in the linear laws is badly behaved due to the influence of the nonlinear variable. If we include the linear and nonlinear variables in the set of variables to which Mori s method is applied, the random forces and the dissipative fluxes (/ will be defined precisely in this section) will be projected orthogonal to all of these variables. The kernels in the resulting equations, the nonlinear Langevin equations, should behave classically. Thus, convolutions involving K will be converted into scalar multiplication by the classical relation. 

The standard methods of obtaining equations of motion for reduced systems are based on the projection-operator techniques developed by Zwanzig and Mori in the late 1950s [23,24]. In this approach one defines an operator, that acts on the full density matrix p to project out a direct product of cr and the thermalized equilibrium density matrix of the... 

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