Purity temperature dependency for coupled harmonic oscillator
- 1. Physics Department, College of Science, King Faisal University, PO Box 380, Alahsa 31982 (Saudi Arabia)
- 2. Saudi Center for Theoretical Physics, Dhahran (Saudi Arabia)
- 3. Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Jerash University, Jerash (Jordan)
Description
We consider the thermal aspect of a system composed of two coupled harmonic oscillators and study the corresponding purity. We initially consider a situation where the system is brought to a canonical thermal equilibrium with a heat-bath at temperature T. We adopt the path integral approach and introduce the evolution operator to calculate the density matrix and subsequently the reduced matrix density. It is used to explicitly determine the purity in terms of different physical quantities and therefore study some limiting cases related to temperature as well as other parameters. Different numerical results are reported and discussed in terms of the involved parameters of our system. (paper: quantum statistical physics, condensed matter, integrable systems)
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/aad19bAdditional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Statistical Mechanics
- Journal Volume
- 2018
- Journal Issue
- 9
- Journal Page Range
- [18 p.]
- ISSN
- 1742-5468
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 52046803
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- DENSITY MATRIX; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; HARMONICS; IMPURITIES; OSCILLATORS; PATH INTEGRALS; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUILIBRIUM; EQUIPMENT; INTEGRALS; MATRICES; OSCILLATIONS