Published May 30, 2003
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Journal article
Propagator for a spin-Bose system with the Bose field coupled to a reservoir of harmonic oscillators
Creators
- 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
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/36/5787/a32108.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
- DOI
- 10.1088/0305-4470/36/21/308;
- PII
- S0305-4470(03)56224-2;
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