Quantal Cumulant Dynamics for Dissipative Systems

Journal Article · Wed Dec 26 04:00:00 EST 2007 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2836007· OSTI ID:21049444

Shigeta, Yasuteru ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Science, Tsukuba University, Tennodai 1-1-1, Ibaraki 305-8571 (Japan)

We develop a quantal cumulant dynamics method for the quantum tunneling in dissipative environment. Reduced equations of motion of classical and quantal cumulant variables without bath degrees of freedom are derived. We observed suppression of the tunneling that depends on the sign of a friction constant for an Ohmic approximation and on the magnitude of a bath frequency for a single bath mode approximation. A possible mechanism of the suppression is explored by analyzing an effective quantal potential of the tunneling path.

• OSTI ID: 21049444
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 2 Vol. 963; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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