Open systems viewed through their conservative extensions

DOI10.1007/S10955-006-9195-7MaRDI QIDQ867042zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexander Figotin, Stephen P. Shipman

Publication date 14 February 2007

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0603034

zbMATH Keywords

conservative extensionconservative systemsopen systemsspectral theorytime-dispersive dissipative media

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory to differential and integral equations (47N20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: A typical linear open system is often defined as a component of a larger conservative one. For instance, a dielectric medium, defined by its frequency dependent electric permittivity and magnetic permeability is a part of a conservative system which includes the matter with all its atomic complexity. A finite slab of a lattice array of coupled oscillators modelling a solid is another example. Assuming that such an open system is all one wants to observe, we ask how big a part of the original conservative system (possibly very complex) is relevant to the observations, or, in other words, how big a part of it is coupled to the open system? We study here the structure of the system coupling and its coupled and decoupled components, showing, in particular, that it is only the system's unique minimal extension that is relevant to its dynamics, and this extension often is tiny part of the original conservative system. We also give a scenario explaining why certain degrees of freedom of a solid do not contribute to its specific heat.

Review text

The authors address the study of open quantum systems, seen as subsystems of a conservative system, relying on the notion of minimal conservative extension of an open system they introduced in the previous work [\textit{A. Figotin} and \textit{J. H. Schenker}, J. Stat. Phys. 118, No. 1--2, 199--263 (2005; Zbl 1130.82021)]. In particular they characterize the minimal conservative extension in view of the modes of the open system and the coupling to the external system. They show by considering a possible model of solid that has frozen degrees of freedom how a high degree of symmetry in the system results in many motions of the system being unaffected by coupling to another system. They further provide a theorem that quantifies how the multiplicity of the modes of a system that are affected by the coupling to another system is bounded by the rank of the coupling.

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