I Is Brownian motion a purely classical phenomenon or is it also quantm?

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A water molecule is as tiny as 0.3 Angstrom. I would expect that quantum effects play a role. I'm wondering if its Brownian motion in a fluid is determined only by classical thermodynamics or if its collisional processes must take into account also quantum scatterings or other effects like quantum uncertainty? I looked for this but couldn't find anyone considering this. Any suggestion?
 
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When Einstein explained the Brownian motion in one of his wonderful papers of 1905 (https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/UG/SM/MATH3075/r/Einstein_1905.pdf), he used classical mechanics only. Quantum mechanics was not invented yet, though Einstein himself was concurrently working on it. Unless you have a case where the details of the interactions during the collisions become relevant, you are unlikely to need quantum mechanics. As long as the collisions are elastic, a classical model is accurate enough.
 
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Of course there's also "quantum Brownian motion". Interstingly it always leads to non-Markovian descriptions. A nice paper, which should be understandable at the introductory quantum-statistics-lecture level (or even after the QM 1 lecture) is

G. W. Ford, J. T. Lewis and R. F. O’Connell, Quantum
Langevin equation, Phys. Rev. A 37, 4419 (1988),
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.37.4419
 
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Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!

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