https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00011145
Quantum Brownian motion on potential surfaces coupled via tunneling in an external electric field
52 Vianou st. 13671 Athens, Aharnes, Greece
Corresponding author: a egthra@hol.gr
Received:
4
January
2001
Revised:
12
March
2001
Published online: 15 July 2001
The present paper deals with the motion of a Brownian particle on two identical but shifted potential surfaces, coupled via a tunneling matrix element in an external electric field. Dissipation is induced by a heat bath represented by an infinite set of harmonic oscillators with a continuum range of frequencies. We derive a perturbative solution for the quantum coherence term of the particle system after performing a small-polaron-like transformation. This is subsequently necessary for the extraction of an equation that describes the reduced dynamics and the minimal action path of the Brownian particle. Finally we extract expressions for the population relaxation rate and the pure quantum-dephasing rate of the two-level system.
PACS: 73.40.Gk – Tunneling / 31.70.Hq – Time-dependent phenomena: excitation and relaxation processes, and reaction rates / 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2001
