International Journal of Modern Physics B

Quantum Friction: A Bell Path Integral Study

Luiz C. L. Botelho, Edson P. da Silva

Published Nov 10, 1998• 0 citations

Abstract

We write effective propagators associated to: (1) A quantum particle interacting with a classical gas and a quantum bosonic gas, modeling friction environments. (2) A noisy and quantum phonon field modeling friction environment at zero temperature. These studies are implemented by means of the Bell functional integrals representing these external dissipative environments.

DOI: 10.1142/s0217979298001678

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