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

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.02.007MaRDI QIDQ635041zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. O. Bolivar

Publication date 19 August 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4402

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical quantizationquantum Brownian motionnon-equilibrium effectsnon-Markovian Caldeira-Leggett equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: We obtain a non-Markovian quantum master equation directly from the quantization of a non-Markovian Fokker-Planck equation describing the Brownian motion of a particle immersed in a generic environment (e.g. a non-thermal fluid). As far as the especial case of a heat bath comprising of quantum harmonic oscillators is concerned, we derive a non-Markovian Caldeira-Leggett master equation on the basis of which we work out the concept of non-equilibrium quantum thermal force exerted by the harmonic heat bath upon the Brownian motion of free particle. The classical limit (or dequantization process) of this sort of non-equilibrium quantum effect is scrutinized, as well.

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