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Decay of correlations in the dissipative two-state system

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We study the equilibrium correlation function of the polaron-dressed tunnelling operator in the dissipative two-state system and compare the asymptoptic dynamics with that of the position correlations. For an Ohmic spectral density with the damping strength K=1/2K=1/2, the correlation functions are obtained in analytic form for all times at any TT and any bias. For K<1K<1, the asymptotic dynamics is found by using a diagrammatic approach within a Coulomb gas representation. At T=0, the tunnelling or coherence correlations drop as t2Kt^{-2K}, whereas the position correlations show universal decay t2\propto t^{-2}. The former decay law is a signature of unscreened attractive charge-charge interactions, while the latter is due to unscreened dipole-dipole interactions.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9807119,
  title  = {Decay of correlations in the dissipative two-state system},
  author = {G. Lang and E. Paladino and U. Weiss},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9807119},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Europhys. Lett