Free energy of a charged oscillator in a magnetic field and coupled to a heat bath through momentum variables

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2013/04/P04034MaRDI QIDQ3301598zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Shamik Gupta, Malay Bandyopadhyay

Publication date 11 August 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.0771

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Motion of charged particles (78A35) Stochastic methods applied to problems in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B31)

Abstract: We obtain an exact formula for the equilibrium free energy of a charged quantum particle moving in a harmonic potential in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field and linearly coupled to a heat bath of independent quantum harmonic oscillators through the momentum variables. We show that the free energy has a different expression than that for the coordinate-coordinate coupling between the particle and the heat-bath oscillators. For an illustrative heat-bath spectrum, we evaluate the free energy in the low-temperature limit, thereby showing that the entropy of the charged particle vanishes at zero temperature, in agreement with the third law of thermodynamics.

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