FKN Formula and Ground State Energy for the Spin Boson Model with External Magnetic Field

DOI10.1007/S00023-022-01160-6MaRDI QIDQ6370439arXivWikidataFDO

Authors David Hasler, Benjamin Hinrichs, Oliver Siebert

Publication date 16 June 2021

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/S00023-022-01160-6

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Heat kernel (35K08) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

arXiv classification

math-phmath.MP

Abstract: We consider the spin boson model with external magnetic field. We prove a path integral formula for the heat kernel, known as Feynman-Kac-Nelson (FKN) formula. We use this path integral representation to express the ground state energy as a stochastic integral. Based on this connection, we determine the expansion coefficients of the ground state energy with respect to the magnetic field strength and express them in terms of correlation functions of a continuous Ising model. From a recently proven correlation inequality, we can then deduce that the second order derivative is finite. As an application, we show existence of ground states in infrared-singular situations.

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