Influence of initial correlations on evolution of a subsystem in a heat bath and polaron mobility

DOI10.1007/S10955-017-1818-7MaRDI QIDQ1687261zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Victor F. Los

Publication date 22 December 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04619

zbMATH Keywords

evolution equationsinitial correlationspolaron mobilitysubsystem in a heat bath

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kinetic theory of gases in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C40) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: A regular approach to accounting for initial correlations, which allows to go beyond the unrealistic random phase (initial product state) approximation in deriving the evolution equations, is suggested. An exact homogeneous equation for a two-time equilibrium correlation function for the dynamical variables of a subsystem interacting with a boson field (heat bath) is obtained. No conventional approximation like RPA or Bogoliubov's principle of weakening of initial correlations is used. The obtained equation takes into account the initial correlations in the kernel governing its evolution. The solution to this equation is found in the second order of the kernel expansion in the electron-phonon interaction, which demonstrates that generally the initial correlations influence the correlation function's evolution in time. It is shown that this influence vanishes on a large timescale. The developed approach is applied to the Fr"ohlich polaron and the low-temperature polaron mobility (which was under a long-time debate) is found with a correction due to initial correlations.

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