Quantum Brownian Motion: proving that the Schmid transition belongs to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16227v1
• Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:07:04 GMT
• Title: Quantum Brownian Motion: proving that the Schmid transition belongs to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class
• Abstract summary: We investigate the equilibrium properties of a quantum Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential.<n>By employing World-Line Monte Carlo in the path-integral formalism, we demonstrate that the transition belongs to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class.<n>We find that the presence of the periodic potential does not alter the localization properties in the sub-Ohmic and super-Ohmic regimes.
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• Abstract: We investigate the equilibrium properties of a quantum Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential, specifically addressing the nature of the dissipation-driven Schmid transition in the Ohmic regime. By employing World-Line Monte Carlo in the path-integral formalism and introducing a specific binary order parameter, we demonstrate that the transition belongs to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless universality class. This classification is substantiated through finite-size scaling analysis that reveals the characteristic logarithmic decay of the correlation functions associated with the order parameter at the critical point. Quantum phase transition turns out to be extremely fragile: it disappears in both over- and sub-Ohmic dissipation regimes. Crucially, we find that the presence of the periodic potential does not alter the localization properties in the sub-Ohmic and super-Ohmic regimes, where the system exhibits the same qualitative behavior as the free quantum Brownian particle. These findings highlight that the emergence of critical behavior is strictly governed by the low-frequency form of the environmental spectral function, which determines the long-range temporal decay of the dissipative kernel.

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