Progress of Theoretical Physics
Linear Response in an Interacting Boson System
Mizuhiko Saeki
Abstract
The TCLE method (a method in which the admittance of a system is directly calculated from time-convolutionless equations with external driving terms) formulated in terms of thermo-field dynamics, is applied to a boson system interacting with its surroundings, referred to as the “heat reservoir”, and with an external driving field. For a boson system interacting with its heat reservoir, the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, a dispersion relation, and sum rules are studied through application of the TCLE method. The effects of the interference between the external driving field and the heat reservoir, which give the effects of the initial correlation and memory, as well as the effects of the boson-boson interaction, are numerically investigated for a non-degenerate boson system interacting with its heat reservoir, up to first order in powers of the boson-boson interaction.