  By using the Wigner transform, it is shown that the nonlinear
Schr$\ddot{\textmd{o}}$dinger equation can be described, in phase space, by a
kinetic theory similar to the Vlasov equation which is used for describing a
classical collisionless plasma. In this paper we mainly show Landau damping in
the quantum sense, namely,quantum Landau damping exists for the Wigner-Poisson
system. At the same time, we also prove the existence and the stability of the
nonlinear Schr$\ddot{\textmd{o}}$dinger equation under the quantum stability
assumption.
