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Lower Spectral Branches of a Spin-Boson Model

Statistical Mechanics 2008-10-28 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We study the structure of the spectrum of a two-level quantum system weakly coupled to a boson field (spin-boson model). Our analysis allows to avoid the cutoff in the number of bosons, if their spectrum is bounded below by a positive constant. We show that, for small coupling constant, the lower part of the spectrum of the spin-boson Hamiltonian contains (one or two) isolated eigenvalues and (respectively, one or two) manifolds of atom +1+ 1-boson states indexed by the boson momentum qq. The dispersion laws and generalized eigenfunctions of the latter are calculated.

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@article{arxiv.0704.3445,
  title  = {Lower Spectral Branches of a Spin-Boson Model},
  author = {Nicolae Angelescu and Robert Minlos and Jean Ruiz and Valentin Zagrebnov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.3445},
  year   = {2008}
}