Noncanonical statistics of a spin-boson model: Theory and exact Monte Carlo simulations

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lee, Chee Kong ^a   Cao, Jianshu ^b   Gong, Jiangbin ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TREATMENT; ARBITRARY TEMPERATURE; CANONICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PERTURBATION THEORY; QUANTUM STATISTICS; REDUCED-DENSITY MATRIX; SPIN BOSON MODELS; SYSTEM-BATH COUPLING; TEMPERATURE DECREASE; THEORETICAL RESULT; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84865008221     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.021109     Document Type: Article

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