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We briefly go through the problem of the quantum description of Brownian motion, concentrating on recent results about the connection between dynamics of the particle and dynamic structure factor of the medium.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Bassano Vacchini

We consider a linear Boltzmann equation that arises in a model for quantum friction. It describes a particle that is slowed down by the emission of bosons. We study the stochastic process generated by this Boltzmann equation and we show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Roland Bauerschmidt , Wojciech de Roeck , Jürg Fröhlich

We derive a quantum master equation from first principles to describe friction in one dimensional, collisional Brownian motion. We are the first to avoid an ill-defined square of the Dirac delta function by using localized wave packets…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. Kamleitner , J. Cresser

A nonlinear theory of quantum Brownian motion in classical environment is developed based on a thermodynamically enhanced nonlinear Schrodinger equation. The latter is transformed via the Madelung transformation into a nonlinear quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-15 Roumen Tsekov

We establish that the exact quantum dynamics of a Brownian particle in the Caldeira-Leggett model can be mapped, at any temperature, onto a classical, non-Markovian stochastic process in phase space. Starting from a correlated thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Dmitriy Kondaurov , Evgeny Polyakov

Quantum Brownian motion, described by the Caldeira-Leggett model, brings insights to understand phenomena and essence of quantum thermodynamics, especially the quantum work and heat associated with their classical counterparts. By employing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-15 Jin-Fu Chen , Tian Qiu , H. T. Quan

Brane model of universe is considered for a particle. Conservation laws inside the brane are obtained. Equation of motion is derived for a particle using variation principle from these conservation laws. This equation includes terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 S. N. Andrianov , V. V. Bochkarev , S. M. Kozyrev

The dynamics of a Brownian particle in a constant magnetic field and time-dependent electric field is studied in the limit of white noise, using a Langevin approach for the classical problem and the path-integral Feynman-Vernon and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-20 Marco Patriarca , Pasquale Sodano

We have presented a simple approach to quantum theory of Brownian motion and barrier crossing dynamics. Based on an initial coherent state representation of bath oscillators and an equilibrium canonical distribution of quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dhruba Banerjee , Bidhan Chandra Bag , Suman Kumar Banik , Deb Shankar Ray

A system of N Brownian particles suspended in a nonuniform heat bath is treated as a thermodynamic system whith internal degrees of freedom, in this case their velocities and coordinates. Applying the scheme of non-equilibrium…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 J. M. Rubí , P. Mazur

We study the Quantum Brownian motion of a charged particle moving in a harmonic potential in the presence of an uniform external magnetic field and linearly coupled to an Ohmic bath through momentum variables. We analyse the growth of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Suraka Bhattacharjee , Urbashi Satpathi , Supurna Sinha

The Brownian motion of a harmonically bound quantum particle and coupled to a harmonic quantum bath is exactly solvable. At low enough temperatures the stationary state is non-Gibbsian due to an entanglement with the bath. This happens when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen , Armen E. Allahverdyan

When two or more objects move relative to one another in vacuum, they experience a drag force which, at zero temperature, usually goes under the name of quantum friction. This contactless non-conservative interaction is mediated by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Daniel Reiche , Francesco Intravaia , Kurt Busch

A master equation with a Lindblad structure is derived, which describes the interaction of a test particle with a macroscopic system and is expressed in terms of the operator valued dynamic structure factor of the system. In the case of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Bassano Vacchini

A quantum analog of friction (understood as a completely positive, Markovian, translation-invariant and phenomenological model of dissipation) is known to be in odds with the detailed balance in the thermodynamic limit. We show that this is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Dmitry V. Zhdanov , Denys I. Bondar , Tamar Seideman

We analyze the classical and quantized center-of-mass motion of a polarizable particle interacting with the fluctuations of the electromagnetic (EM) field in the presence of a medium. As a polarizable particle is immersed in a thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Clemens Jakubec , Christopher Jarzynski , Kanu Sinha

Brownian motion of particle interacting with atoms of ideal gas is discussed as a key problem of kinetics lying at the border between ``dead'' systems like the Lorentz gas or formal constructs of conceptual Boltzmannian kinetics and actual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-06-26 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

We consider a single Brownian particle in a spatially symmetric, periodic system far from thermal equilibrium. This setup can be readily realized experimentally. Upon application of an external static force F, the average particle velocity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ralf Eichhorn , Peter Reimann , Peter Hänggi

The equation for the quantum motion of a Brownian particle in a gaseous environment is derived by means of S-matrix theory. This quantum version of the linear Boltzmann equation accounts non-perturbatively for the quantum effects of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Hornberger

A new type of Coulomb gas is defined, consisting of arbitrary numbers of point charges of two species executing Brownian motions under the influence of their mutual electrostatic repulsion. Being a generalization of a model of identical…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Igor Loutsenko