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The periodically driven harmonic oscillator with damping is one of the most elementary and trusted models in physics and normally applied in its steady state, disregarding specific initial conditions and associated transients. For example,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-03-28 Henning U. Voss

This paper describes how the structure of the state space of the quantum harmonic oscillator can be described by an adjunction of categories, that encodes the raising and lowering operators into a commutative comonoid. The formulation is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Jamie Vicary

A linear open quantum system consisting of a harmonic oscillator linearly coupled to an infinite set of independent harmonic oscillators is considered; these oscillators have a general spectral density function and are initially in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Esteban Calzetta , Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

In this paper, the Higgs-like approach is used to analyze the quantum dynamics of a harmonic oscillator constrained on a circle. We obtain the Hamiltonian of this system as a function of the Cartesian coordinate of the tangent line through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Ali Mahdifar , Ehsan Amooghorban

The destruction of quantum coherence by environmental influences is investigated taking the damped harmonic oscillator and the dissipative two-state system as prototypical examples. It is shown that the location of the coherent-incoherent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 Reinhold Egger , Hermann Grabert , Ulrich Weiss

In this investigation, the displacement operator is revisited. We established a connection between the Hermitian version of this operator with the well-known Weyl ordering. Besides, we characterized the quantum properties of a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-24 F. A. Brito , F. F. Santos , J. R. L. Santos

The physics of quantum electromagnetism in an absorbing medium is that of a field of damped harmonic oscillators. Yet until recently the damped harmonic oscillator was not treated with the same kind of formalism used to describe quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-01 T. G Philbin , S. A. R. Horsley

Quantum dynamics of a damped harmonic oscillator has been extensively studied since the sixties of the last century. Here, with a distinct tool termed the ``group-theoretical characteristic function" (GCF), we investigate analytically how a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Yan Gu , Jiao Wang

A generalized Sellmeier model, also referred to as the Lorentz-Dirac model, has been used for the description of the dielectric function of a number of technologically important materials in the literature. This model represents the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-06 T. Das , C. A. Ullrich , U. D. Jentschura

We study a quantum harmonic oscillator linearly coupled through the position operator $\hat{q}$ to a first bath and through the momentum operator $\hat{p}$ to a second bath yielding an Ohmic-Drude dissipation. We analyse the oscillator's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 G. Rastelli

The motivation of this work is to get an additional insight into the irreversible energy dissipation on the quantum level. The presented examination procedure is based on the Feynman path integral method that is applied and widened towards…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-09 B. G. Márkus , F. Márkus

In a recent paper a slightly modified version of the Bateman system, originally proposed to describe a damped harmonic oscillator, was proposed. This system is really different from the Bateman's one, in the sense that this latter cannot be…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Fabio Bagarello

Decay law of a complicated unstable state formed in a high energy collision is described by the Fourier transform of the two-point correlation function of the scattering matrix. Although each constituent resonance state decays exponentially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Valentin V. Sokolov

The decoherence of a two-state system coupled with a sub-Ohmic bath is investigated theoretically by means of the perturbation approach based on a unitary transformation. It is shown that the decoherence depends strongly and sensitively on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 Zhiguo Lü , Hang Zheng

The properties of a quantum dissipative scalar field is analyzed by Caldeira-Leggett model in strong-coupling regime. The Lagrangian of the total system is canonically quantized and the full Hamiltonian is diagonalized using Fano technique.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Marjan Jafari , Fardin Kheirandish

We reanalyse the quantum damped harmonic oscillator, introducing three less than common features. These are (i) the use of a continuum model of the reservoir rather than an ensemble of discrete oscillators, (ii) an exact diagonalisation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Stephen M. Barnett , James D. Cresser , Sarah Croke

An oscillator with stochastic frequency is discussed as a model for evaluating the quantum coherence properties of a physical system. It is found that the choice of jump statistics has to be considered with care if unphysical consequences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martti Havukainen , Stig Stenholm

As an application of the classically decayable correlation in a quantum chaos system maintained over an extremely long time-scale (Matsui et al, Europhys.Lett. 113(2016),40008), we propose a minimal model of quantum damper composed of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-20 Fumihiro Matsui , Hiroaki S. Yamada , Kensuke S. Ikeda

The Fourier series method is used to solve the homogeneous equation governing the motion of the harmonic oscillator. It is shown that the general solution to the problem can be found in a surprisingly simple way for the case of the simple…

General Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 A. S. de Castro

We show that any optical dissipative structure supported by degenerate optical parametric oscillators contains a special transverse mode that is free from quantum fluctuations when measured in a balanced homodyne detection experiment. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Isabel Perez-Arjona , Eugenio Roldan , German J. de Valcarcel