Quantum approach to the thermalization of the toppling pencil interacting with a finite bath

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.10181v1
• Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 12:30:34 GMT
• Title: Quantum approach to the thermalization of the toppling pencil interacting with a finite bath
• Authors: Sreeja Loho Choudhury and Frank Grossmann
• Abstract summary: We investigate the longstanding problem of thermalization of quantum systems coupled to an environment. The long-time average of the double-well energy is found to be a monotonously decaying function.
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• Abstract: We investigate the longstanding problem of thermalization of quantum systems coupled to an environment by focusing on a bistable quartic oscillator interacting with a finite number of harmonic oscillators. In order to overcome the exponential wall that one usually encounters in grid based approaches to solve the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation of the extended system, methods based on the time-dependent variational principle are best suited. Here we will apply the method of coupled coherent states [D. V. Shalashilin and M. S. Child, J. Chem. Phys. {\bf 113}, 10028 (2000)]. By investigating the dynamics of an initial wavefunction on top of the barrier of the double well, it will be shown that only a handful of oscillators with suitably chosen frequencies, starting in their ground states, is enough to drive the bistable system close to its uncoupled ground state. The long-time average of the double-well energy is found to be a monotonously decaying function of the number of environmental oscillators in the parameter range that was numerically accessible.

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