A general study of particle-reservoir correlations in quantal Brownian motion is developed. The non-Markovian character of the analysis requires the application of analytic continuation techniques which yield as a remarkable result general formulae for the analytic continuation of the reduced weak-coupling collision operator. The study focuses upon the mean value of the interaction energy which is shown to evolve according to the particle relaxation frequencies in addition to a set of non-Markovian correlation frequencies. The formalism is applied to a spin j coupled to a magnetic field and in contact (weak-coupling) to a phonon reservoir showing that (i) the reservoir coordinates generally fluctuate on an average in opposite direction to the spin angular momentum and (ii) the set of non-Markovian correlation frequencies is absent. © 1993.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | Particle-reservoir correlations in quantal Brownian motion |
Autor: | Cataldo, H.M. |
Filiación: | Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Año: | 1993 |
Volumen: | 195 |
Número: | 1-2 |
Página de inicio: | 223 |
Página de fin: | 238 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0378-4371(93)90265-6 |
Título revista: | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications |
Título revista abreviado: | Phys A Stat Mech Appl |
ISSN: | 03784371 |
CODEN: | PHYAD |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_03784371_v195_n1-2_p223_Cataldo |