Continuum limit frozen Gaussian approximation for the reduced thermal density matrix of dissipative systems

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Conte, Riccardo ^a   Pollak, Eli ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM LIMITS; DELOCALIZATIONS; DISSIPATIVE SYSTEMS; DOUBLE-WELL POTENTIAL; GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATIONS; GENERALIZED LANGEVIN EQUATION; THERMAL DENSITY; TIME DYNAMIC; TUNNELING DENSITY;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRICTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84858233487     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3682241     Document Type: Article

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