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Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Exponentially damped operators for a harmonic oscillator linearly coupled to a heat bath

Ilya Olegovich Glebov, В. В. Еремин

Published Feb 1, 2010• 1 citation
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10.1007/s11232-010-0015-5

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Exact calculations for a quantum oscillator linearly coupled to a thermal reservoir are presented. Explicit results (variances and correlations) for the response and the spontaneous fluctuations are evaluated for two different models of the heat bath; a reservoir with a spectrum which is similar to that of acoustic phonons and another which is analogous to optic phonons. The low-temperature behavior is shown to depend sensitively on the spectral density of the thermal reservoir. The mass and the frequency of the oscillator become renormalized through the coupling to the bath. These renormalizations are intrinsically frequency dependent. Moreover, the commonly used form of Ehrenfest's equation for the dynamics of the linearly damped oscillator is shown to only be a reasonable approximation within certain frequency regimes.