arXiv:cond-mat/0305228

A quantum generalization of the thermal viscous friction law

P. Shiktorov, Evgenij Starikov, Viktor Gružinskis, Lino Reggiani

Published May 10, 2003• 0 citations

Abstract

On the basis of the equivalence of the energy balance deacription at micro- and macro-level we propose a quantum generalization of the viscous friction law for a macroscopic Langevin equation describing thermal fluctuations without the zero point contribution. This equation recovers the classical case in the limit h -> 0. In particular it satisfies the quantum regression theorem and resolves several anomalies appearing in the quantum extension of the fluctuation dissipation theorem.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0305228

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