Dissipative Free Particle: phenomenological approach

A.K. CHATTAH; M.O. CÁCERES

Trieste, Italia

Workshop; Workshop on Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Systems; 1999

International Center of Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

    Starting from a total Hamiltonian, the second order weak coupling approximation to arrive to a Quantum Master Equation for a system interacting with a thermal bath, is revisited. Then a Kossakowski-Lindblad form for the generator is written in terms of the position and momentum operators. Some conditions on the coefficients of this generator are analyzed in order to fulfill a well behaved evolution. A weak coupling approximation for an stochastic non-Markovian wave equation is also worked out.     We analyze the free particle model interacting with a thermal quantum environment as a particular system. In the context of Schrödinger-Langevin picture different kinds of interactions with the bath are analyzed. Introducing this stochastic state we give a phenomenological point of view in order to overcome certain difficulties in the master equation of the system --in the second order approximation--and also to represent the open free particle state dynamics.  TRABAJO PRESENTADO COMO POSTER POR AK CHATTAH