Local Harmonic Approximation to Quantum Mean Force Gibbs State

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11595v1
• Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:56:19 GMT
• Title: Local Harmonic Approximation to Quantum Mean Force Gibbs State
• Authors: Prem Kumar
• Abstract summary: When the strength of interaction between a quantum system and bath is non-negligible, the equilibrium state can deviate from the Gibbs state. Here, we obtain an approximate expression for such a mean force Gibbs state for a particle in an arbitrary one dimensional potential, interacting with a bosonic bath.
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• Abstract: When the strength of interaction between a quantum system and bath is non-negligible, the equilibrium state can deviate from the Gibbs state. Here, we obtain an approximate expression for such a mean force Gibbs state for a particle in an arbitrary one dimensional potential, interacting with a bosonic bath. This approximate state is accurate when either the system-bath coupling or the temperature is large, or when the third and higher derivatives of the potential are small compared to certain system-bath specific parameters. We show that our result recovers the ultra strong coupling and high temperature results recently derived in literature. We then apply this method to study some systems like a quartic oscillator and a particle in a quartic double-well potential. We also use our method to analyze the proton tunneling problem in a DNA recently studied in literature [Slocombe et al., Comm. Phys., vol. 5, no. 1, p. 109, 2022], where our results suggest the equilibrium value of the probability of mutation to be orders of magnitude lower than the steady state value obtained there ($10^{-8}$ vs $10^{-4}$).

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