Non-equilibrium effects upon the non-Markovian Caldeira-Leggett quantum master equation (Q635041)

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Non-equilibrium effects upon the non-Markovian Caldeira-Leggett quantum master equation
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    Non-equilibrium effects upon the non-Markovian Caldeira-Leggett quantum master equation (English)
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    19 August 2011
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    The main contribution of the paper is to derive a non-Markovian Klein-Kramers equation to describe the Brownian motion of a particle immersed in a generic environment. From there one obtains the non-Markovian Caldeira-Leggett master equation by using a dynamical quantization. One then have a way to evaluate the thermal quantum force exerted by the heat bath on the Brownian motion of a free particle on the one hand, and the classical limit of this quantum force on the other hand.
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    quantum Brownian motion
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    dynamical quantization
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    non-Markovian Caldeira-Leggett equation
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    non-equilibrium effects
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