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Journal of Mathematical Physics

On the quantization of the massless Bateman system

Koichi Takahashi

Published Mar 1, 2018• 6 citations
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Abstract

The so-called Bateman system for the damped harmonic oscillator is reduced to a genuine dual dissipation system (DDS) by setting the mass to zero. We explore herein the condition under which the canonical quantization of the DDS is consistently performed. The roles of the observable and auxiliary coordinates are discriminated. The results show that the complete and orthogonal Fock space of states can be constructed on the stable vacuum if an anti-Hermite representation of the canonical Hamiltonian is adopted. The amplitude of the one-particle wavefunction is consistent with the classical solution. The fields can be quantized as bosonic or fermionic. For bosonic systems, the quantum fluctuation of the field is directly associated with the dissipation rate.

DOI
10.1063/1.5017696

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We present an approach to the problem of quantization of the damped harmonic oscillator. To start with, we adopt the standard method of doubling the degrees of freedom of the system (Bateman form) and then, by introducing some new parameters, we get a generalized coupled set of equations from the Bateman form. Using the corresponding time-independent Lagrangian, quantum effects on a pair of Bateman oscillators embedded in an ambient noncommutative space (Moyal plane) are analyzed by using both path integral and canonical quantization schemes within the framework of the Hilbert--Schmidt operator formulation. Our method is distinct from those existing in the literature and where the ambient space was taken to be commutative. Our quantization shows that we end up again with a Bateman system except that the damping factor undergoes renormalization. Strikingly, the corresponding expression shows that the renormalized damping factor can be nonzero even if ``bare'' one is zero to begin with. In other words, noncommutativity can act as a source of dissipation. Conversely, the noncommutative parameter $\ensuremath{\theta}$, taken to be a free one now, can be fine tuned to get a vanishing renormalized damping factor. This indicates in some sense a ``duality'' between dissipation and noncommutativity. Our results match the existing results in the commutative limit.
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Quantization of a damped harmonic oscillator leads to so called Bateman's dual system. The corresponding Bateman's Hamiltonian, being a self-adjoint operator, displays the discrete family of complex eigenvalues. We show that they correspond to the poles of energy eigenvectors and the corresponding resolvent operator when continued to the complex energy plane. Therefore, the corresponding generalized eigenvectors may be interpreted as resonant states which are responsible for the irreversible quantum dynamics of a damped harmonic oscillator.