Dissipation and decoherence by ideal quantum gas
Statistical Mechanics
2015-10-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The effective Lagrangian of a test particle, interacting with an ideal gas, is calculated with in the closed time path formalism in the one-loop and the leading order of the particle trajectory. The expansion in the time derivative is available for slow enough motion and it uncovers diffusive effective forces and decoherence for the coordinate and the momentum. A pure Newtonian friction force and an anisotrop coordinate decoherence are found for zero temperature ideal gas of fermions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1502.02540,
title = {Dissipation and decoherence by ideal quantum gas},
author = {Janos Polonyi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.02540},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
15 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. A