A Canonical approach to dissipation
Aug, 2001Citations per year
Abstract:
We provide a new canonical approach for studying the quantum mechanical damped harmonic oscillator based on the doubling of degrees of freedom approach. Explicit expressions for Lagrangians of the elementary modes of the problem, characterising both forward and backward time propagations are given. A Hamiltonian analysis, showing the equivalence with the Lagrangian approach, is also done. Based on this Hamiltonian analysis, the quantization of the model is discussed.Note:
- Revtex, 6 pages, considerably expanded with modified title and refs.; To appear in J.Phys.A
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