Remarks on the ground state energy of the spin-boson model. An application of the Wigner-Weisskopf model

Reviews in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 221-251

  Hirokawa, Masao ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fock space; Ground state energy; Infrared problem; Massless quantum field; Spin boson model; Wigner weisskopf model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035585522     PISSN: 0129055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129055X01000727     Document Type: Article

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