Author : Babak Bayani
Publisher : Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG
ISBN 13 : 9783838132075
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (32 download)
Book Synopsis Interacting Quantum-Dissipative Tunnelling Systems by : Babak Bayani
Download or read book Interacting Quantum-Dissipative Tunnelling Systems written by Babak Bayani and published by Sudwestdeutscher Verlag Fur Hochschulschriften AG. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The investigation of dissipative quantum systems makes it possible to observe quantum phenomena also on macroscopic length scales. The microscopic model selected allows to deduce and examine the so far only phenomenologically accessible effect of quantum dissipation in a clear mathematical and physical way. The investigated microscopic model is a 1-dimensional chain of harmonic degrees of freedom which are linearly coupled to each other as well as to r anharmonic degrees of freedom. The case of one respectively two anharmonic bonds are explicitly analysed. An analytic separation of the harmonic from the anharmonic degrees of freedom is accomplished in two different ways. The anharmonic potential is chosen as a symmetrical double well potential which allows the calculation of the transitions between the two minima by performing a Wick rotation. Eliminating the harmonic degrees of freedom is done via the well-known Feynman-Vernon path integral formalism.