Dissipative cyclotron motion of a charged quantum-oscillator and third law. Low temperature thermodynamics and dissipative cyclotron motion (Q5961862)

The low temperature behavior is investigated for the quantum charged oscillator in cyclotron motion, subject to various thermal bath couplings. The decay of entropy in this regime and possible ways to either validate or invalidate this behavior are discussed. The paper is motivated by the recent research of \textit{P. Hänggi} and \textit{G.-L. Ingold} [Chaos 15, No.~2, 026105, 12 p. (2005; Zbl 1080.82015)] and that on the influence of various oscillator-bath coupling forms due to W. Yang and J. Bao. Since the thermodynamic functions can be derived explicitly, their decay for low temperatures is kept under control. Effects of boundary data are included as well.