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Out of Time Ordered Quantum Dissipation

Statistical Mechanics 2019-09-04 v4 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider a quantum Brownian particle interacting with two harmonic baths, which is then perturbed by a cubic coupling linking the particle and the baths. This cubic coupling induces non-linear dissipation and noise terms in the influence functional/master equation of the particle. Its effect on the Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators (OTOCs) of the particle cannot be captured by the conventional Feynman-Vernon formalism.We derive the generalised influence functional which correctly encodes the physics of OTO fluctuations, response, dissipation and decoherence. We examine an example where Markovian approximation is valid for the OTO dynamics. If the original cubic coupling has a definite time-reversal parity, the leading order OTO influence functional is completely determined by the couplings in the usual master equation via OTO generalisation of Onsager-Casimir relations. New OTO fluctuation-dissipation relations connect the non-Gaussianity of the thermal noise to the thermal jitter in the damping constant of the Brownian particle.

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@article{arxiv.1811.01513,
  title  = {Out of Time Ordered Quantum Dissipation},
  author = {Bidisha Chakrabarty and Soumyadeep Chaudhuri and R. Loganayagam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.01513},
  year   = {2019}
}

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46 pages+appendices, typos corrected, minor changes, references updated

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