Quantum Brownian motion - Recent developments
Abstract
Progress achieved in the study of quantum Brownian motion during 1981-1985 is reviewed. The use of subsystem dynamics to reconcile damped equations of motion with the process of quantization is emphasized. A formalism is introduced and its application to the problems of harmonic oscillators and free particles, destruction of quantum interference, quantum tunneling, and quantum coherence is considered. The physical meaning of the resulting oscillators is discussed.
- Publication:
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Quantum Optics IV
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986quop.proc..221C
- Keywords:
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- Brownian Movements;
- Quantum Electronics;
- Quantum Optics;
- Quantum Statistics;
- Coherent Radiation;
- Parametric Amplifiers;
- Quantum Theory;
- Random Walk;
- Squid (Detectors);
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Physics