English

Diffusion of a massive quantum particle coupled to a quasi-free thermal medium

Mathematical Physics 2011-01-18 v4 math.MP

Abstract

We consider a heavy quantum particle with an internal degree of freedom moving on the dd-dimensional lattice \bbZd\bbZ^d (e.g., a heavy atom with finitely many excited states). The particle is coupled to a thermal medium (bath) consisting of free relativistic bosons through an interaction of strength \la\la linear in creation and annihilation operators. The mass of the quantum particle is assumed to be of order \la2\la^{-2}, and we assume that the internal degree of freedom is coupled "effectively" to the thermal medium. We prove that the motion of the quantum particle is diffusive in d4d\geq 4 and for \la\la small enough.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0906.5178,
  title  = {Diffusion of a massive quantum particle coupled to a quasi-free thermal medium},
  author = {W. De Roeck and J. Froehlich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.5178},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

v3 to v4, layout changes, to appear in CMP

R2 v1 2026-06-21T13:18:45.359Z