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Infinite Dimensional Analysis Quantum Probability and Related Topics

The Free Stochastic Limit of Interacting Quantum Fields

John Edward Gough

Published Jul 1, 1998• 3 citations
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Abstract

The problem of obtaining the quantum stochastic limit for a system interacting with a reservoir is investigated when both are considered as quantum fields. The pre-limit fields are as encountered in standard quantum field theory and in particular we do not resort to the simplifying responseless interaction for the reservoir field. In the separation of time scales between the unperturbed (slow) and interaction (fast) dynamics we find a new quantum stochastic noise emerging which describes multi-particle scatterings and has extended free statistics. We give explicit diagrammatic rules to compute the 2n-point correlators of the noise.

DOI
10.1142/s0219025798000235

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The Quantum Stochastic Limit of a quantum mechanical particle coupled to a quantum field without the neglect of the response details of the interaction (i.e., not making the dipole approximation) is made following the scheme of Accardi and Lu and the corresponding Quantum Stochastic Structure is derived. The stochastic sector for the noise is constructed and is shown to be of a qualitatively new type. We also include a physical discussion on the limit noise which obeys Interacting-Free statistics and include a new shorter proof of the noise convergence and also a new construction of Interacting-Free Fock Space.
We introduce a Feynman diagram calculus for quantum stochastic fields and show that from the weak coupling limit of a Bose quantum field reservoir in a Gaussian state one obtains a quantum stochastic field process which has extended Wigner statistics. That is, we calculate explicitly the moments using the diagram rules and show that only moments corresponding to non-crossing diagrams are non-trivial. We further give the physical mechanism underlying this fact; namely the combination of momentum conservation (arising from the correct treatment of the full responsive interaction) and the mass-shell energy conservation for the virtual (stochastic) reservoir quanta. In our analysis we introduce a volume cut-off initially for the system particle to discretize its energy spectrum and then take the weak coupling limit. The individual noise fields associated with energy state transitions were Gaussian however, when the volume cut-off is then removed and we recover the noise correlations. Thus for this problem the removal of the cut-off and the weak coupling limit are in fact interchangeable.
A rigorous derivation of quantum Langevin equation from microscopic dynamics in the low density limit is given. We consider a quantum model of a microscopic system (test particle) coupled with a reservoir (gas of light Bose particles) via interaction of scattering type. We formulate a mathematical procedure (the so-called stochastic golden rule) which allows us to determine the quantum Langevin equation in the limit of large time and small density of particles of the reservoir. The quantum Langevin equation describes not only dynamics of the system but also the reservoir. We show that the generator of the corresponding master equation has the Lindblad form of most general generators of completely positive semigroups.
We consider a system of N identical quantum particles coupled to an environment. The coupling is scaled in a mean-field way, and particles interact indirectly through the environment. There is no direct interaction between particles. The time evolution of the mean-field-scaled particles is called the mean-field dynamics and the limit of the evolution as N → ∞ is called the mean-field limit. The study of mean-field limits is an active topic of research in many-body quantum theory. Previously, almost all research in this area has been carried out for directly interacting particles without interaction with an environment. In this thesis, we prove that under a suitable condition on the initial system states the mean-field limit in the above indirectly interacting particle system does exist. The condition is satisfied in particular for spin ½ (qubit) systems. Assuming this condition, we show that the system dynamics is the free dynamics in the mean-field limit N → ∞, and we find the first and second correction terms. We show that the particles have a collective effect on the dynamics of the environment (reservoir) which we derive analytically. We give examples to illustrate our results.
The problem of extending ideas and results on the dynamics of infinite classical lattice systems to the quantum domain naturally arises in different branches of physics (nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, quantum optics, solid state, …) and new momentum from the development of quantum computer and quantum neural networks (which are in fact interacting arrays of binary systems) has been found. The stochastic limit of quantum theory allowed to deduce, as limits of the usual Hamiltonian systems, a new class of quantum stochastic flows which, when restricted to an appropriate Abelian subalgebra
Open quantum systems are often encountered in many different physical situations. From quantum optics to statistical mechanics, they are fundamental in the understanding of a great variety of different phenomena. Some of the most common examples are the relaxation to equilibrium, the existence of nonequilibrium stationary states, and the dynamics of atoms in interaction with electromagnetic fields. A crucial step in the analysis is to consider the quantum open system and its environment as the two mutually interacting components of a larger isolated system. Thereafter, the so‐called Markov approximation is often considered, which consists on assuming that the time scales associated to the dynamics of the quantum open system are larger than those of the environment. It is the interplay of the different time scales associated with the system and the environment what determines the validity of the different approximations made. In this paper we will discuss the dynamics of a open quantum system in contact with a reservoir when the Markov approximation is not valid, and we have to include some non‐Markovian or memory effects.