An Expression of the Ground State Energy of the Spin-Boson Model

Masao Hirokawa

Masao Hirokawa

Masao Hirokawa

An expression of the ground state energy E SB of the spin-boson Hamiltonian H SB is considered. The expression in the cases of both massive and massless bosons is given by a nonperturbative method.

Anton Amann

Liu, Tao, Juhao Wu, Ying, Mark

By utilizing a unitary transformation, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for the degeneracy between the even- and odd-parity energy states of the spin-boson model (SBM). Employing the Rayleigh quotient of matrix algebra, we rigorously prove that the ground state energy of the SBM is lower than the systems lowest possible degenerate energy and possesses a definite parity. Based on the necessary and sufficient conditions for parity breaking, we provide an analytical expression for the parity-breaking critical value, which is closely related to the expansion order and computational accuracy. This expression reproduces the SBM phase diagram obtained by quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) and logarithmic discretization numerical renormalization group (NRG) methods. However, this phase diagram does not characterize the ground state of the system.