On the nonperturbative theory of pure dephasing in condensed phases at low temperatures

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 10500-10506

  Reichman, David ^a   Silbey, Robert J ^b   Suerez, Alberto ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000241549     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.472976     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. G. D. Mahan, Many-Particle Physics (Plenum, New York, 1990).
2. D. Hsu and J. L. Skinner, J. Chem. Phys. 81, 1604 (1984).
3. J. L. Skinner and D. Hsu, J. Phys. Chem. 90, 4931 (1986).
4. I. S. Osad'ko, Sov. Phys. Solid State 17, 2098 (1976).
5. D. Hsu and J. L. Skinner, J. Chem. Phys. 81, 5471 (1984);
6. 83, 2107 (1985).
7. D. Hsu and J. L. Skinner, J. Chem. Phys. 83, 2097 (1985);
8. 87, 54 (1987).
9. K. Lindenberg and B. West, Phys. Rev. A 30, 568 (1984);
10. E. Braun and P. A. Mello, Phys. Lett. A 115, 54 (1987).
11. A. J. Leggett, S. Chakravarty, A. T. Dorsey, M. P. A. Fisher, A. Garg, and W. Zwerger, Rev. Mod. Phys. 59, 1 (1987).
12. For a discussion of quadratic, super-Ohmic effects in the Spin-Boson problem, see A. Heuer, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 26, 7181 (1993);
13. Yu. Kagan and N. V. Prokofev, Sov. Phys. JETP 69, 1250 (1989).
14. See, for example, D. E. Makarov and N. Makri, Chem Phys. Lett. 221, 482 (1994).
15. C. B. Duke and G. D. Mahan, Phys. Rev. 139, A1965 (1965).
16. For a discussion of the effect of initial conditions on Ohmic damping, see M. Sassetti and U. Weiss, Phys. Rev. A 41, 5383 (1990).
17. C. Aslangul, N. Pettier, and D. Saint-James, J. Phys. (Paris) 12, 2031 (1985).
18. T-M. Wu, D. W. Brown, and K. Lindenberg, Chem. Phys. 146, 445 (1990).
19. G. D. Mahan, in Solid State Physics, Vol. 29, edited by H. Eherenreich, F. . Seitz, and D. Turnbull (Academic, New York, 1974).
20. B. B. Laird, J. Budimir, and J. L. Skinner, J. Chem. Phys. 94,4391 (1991).
21. D. R. Reichman and R. Silbey, J. Chem. Phys. 104, 1506 (1996).
22. Temperatures below 1 mK have been reached in experiments on glasses, see, for example, P. Esquinazi, R. Konig, and F. Pobell, Z. Phys. B-Condensed Matt. 87, 305 (1992).
23. G. D. Mahan, in Polarons in Ionic Crystals and Polar Semiconductors, edited by J. T. Devreese (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1972).
24. J. L. Black, in Glassy Metals 1, edited by H. J. Giintherodt and H. Beck (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1981).
25. L-D. Chang and S. Chakravarty, Phys. Rev. B 29, 154 (1985).
26. U. Weiss, Quantum Dissipative Dynamics (World Scientific, Singapore, 1993).
27. J. Kikas, A. Suisalu, V. Zazubovich, and P. Vois, J. Chem. Phys. 104, 4434 (1996).
28. D. Hsu and J. L. Skinner, J. Lumin. 37, 331 (1987).
29. R. Balian and E. Brézin, Nuovo Cim. 64B, 37 (1969).
30. R. Friesner, M. Pettitt, and J. Jean, J. Chem. Phys. 82, 2918 (1985).
31. R. W. Munn and R. Silbey, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 11, 939 (1978).
32. See also, D. G. Evans and R. Coalson, J. Chem. Phys. 97, 5081 (1992);
33. J. Cao, L. W. Ungar, and G. A. Voth, J. Chem. Phys. 104, 4189 (1996).
34. See G. D. Mahan, in Fermi Surface Effects, edited by J. Kondo and A. Yoshimori (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988).