1. Dissipation in a finite-size bath.
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Carcaterra, A. and Akay, A.
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ENERGY dissipation , *PARTICLES , *HARMONIC oscillators , *BANDWIDTHS , *DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory) , *QUANTUM perturbations - Abstract
We investigate the interaction of a particle with a finite-size bath represented by a set of independent linear oscillators with frequencies that fall within a finite bandwidth. We discover that when the oscillators have particular frequency distributions, the finite-size bath behaves much as an infinite-size bath exhibiting dissipation properties and thus allowing irreversible energy absorption from a particle immersed in it. We also present a reinterpretation of the Langevin equation using a perturbation approach in which the small parameter represents the inverse of the number of oscillators in the bath, elucidating the relationship between finite-size and infinite-size bath responses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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