Published May 30, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Propagator for a spin-Bose system with the Bose field coupled to a reservoir of harmonic oscillators

  • 1. School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067 (India)

Description

We consider the general problem of a single two-level atom interacting with a multimode radiation field (without the rotating-wave approximation), and additionally take the field to be coupled to a thermal reservoir. Using the method of bosonization of the spin operators in the Hamiltonian, and working in the Bargmann representation for all the boson operators, we obtain the propagator for the composite system using the techniques of functional integration, under a reasonable approximation scheme. The propagator is explicitly evaluated for a simplified version of the system with one spin and a dynamically coupled single-mode field. The results are also checked on the known problem of quantum Brownian motion

Availability note (English)

Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/36/5787/a32108.pdf or at the Web site for the Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General (ISSN 1361-6447) http://www.iop.org/

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Physics. A, Mathematical and General
Journal Volume
36
Journal Issue
21
Journal Page Range
p. 5787-5802
ISSN
0305-4470
CODEN
JPHAC5

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
34044236
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSON EXPANSION; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; HAMILTONIANS; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; INTEGRAL CALCULUS; PROPAGATOR; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SPIN
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM OPERATORS