Data di Pubblicazione:
2011
Citazione:
Universal Markovian reduction of Brownian particle dynamics : communication / R. Martinazzo, B. Vacchini, K.H. Hughes, I. Burghardt. - In: THE JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS. - ISSN 0021-9606. - 134:1(2011 Jan 07), pp. 011101.1-011101.4.
Abstract:
Non-Markovian processes can often be turned Markovian by enlarging the set of variables. Here we show, by an explicit construction, how this can be done for the dynamics of a Brownian particle obeying the generalized Langevin equation. Given an arbitrary bath spectral density $J_{0}$, we introduce an orthogonal transformation of the bath variables into effective modes, leading stepwise to a semi-infinite chain with nearest-neighbor interactions. The transformation is uniquely determined by $J_{0}$ and defines a sequence $\{J_{n}\}_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ of residual spectral densities describing the interaction of the terminal chain mode, at each step, with the remaining bath. We derive a simple, one-term recurrence relation for this sequence, and show that its limit is the quasi-Ohmic expression provided by the Rubin model of dissipation. Numerical calculations show that, irrespective of the details of $J_{0}$, convergence is fast enough to be useful in practice for an effective Markovian reduction of quantum dissipative dynamics.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
R. Martinazzo, B. Vacchini, K.H. Hughes, I. Burghardt
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