Thermal ionization for short-range potentials

DOI10.1007/S10955-020-02688-9zbMATH Open1459.81042arXiv2006.10874OpenAlexW3120501948MaRDI QIDQ2658092FDOQ2658092

Authors: David Hasler, Oliver Siebert 

Publication date: 18 March 2021

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

Abstract: We study a concrete model of a confined particle in form of a Schr"odinger operator with a compactly supported smooth potential coupled to a bosonic field at positive temperature. We show, that the model exhibits thermal ionization for any positive temperature, provided the coupling is sufficiently small. Mathematically, one has to rule out that zero is an eigenvalue of the self-adjoint generator of time evolution - the Liouvillian. This will be done by using positive commutator methods with dilations in the space of scattering functions. Our proof relies on a spatial cutoff in the coupling but does otherwise not require any unnatural restrictions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10874

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zbMATH Keywords

open quantum systemstationary phasepositive commutatorsscattering functionsLiouvillianpositive temperature representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Atomic physics (81V45) Molecular physics (81V55) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

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