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Nonperturbative renormalization-group approach for quantum dissipative systems

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v3 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We analyze the dissipative quantum tunneling in the Caldeira-Leggett model by the nonperturbative renormalization-group method. We classify the dissipation effects by introducing the notion of effective cutoffs. We calculate the localization susceptibility to evaluate the critical dissipation for the quantum-classical transition. Our results are consistent with previous semiclassical arguments, but give considerably larger critical dissipation.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0205002,
  title  = {Nonperturbative renormalization-group approach for quantum dissipative systems},
  author = {Ken-Ichi Aoki and Atsushi Horikoshi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0205002},
  year   = {2009}
}

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