Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Relation between TCLE Method and Relaxation Method. II
Mizuhiko Saeki
Abstract
A general form of admittance is derived using the relaxation method under thermal equilibrium initial conditions from a second-order TCL equation with no external driving terms. Its admittance is shown to include the two interference terms in the TCLE method (method of TCL equations with external driving terms). Effects of the first and second interference terms in the TCLE method are numerically discussed for a quantal spin (magnitude 1/2) interacting with a spin-like bath and with a boson-like bath, respectively. It is shown that the first interference term which represents effects of the initial correlation and which is neglected in the relaxation method under decoupled initial conditions of the spin and bath, produces the effects which enhance the peaks of line shapes slightly and which abase the line shapes at the small frequency region, and becomes larger as the characteristic frequency of the heat bath becomes smaller.