Radiation reaction and quantum damped harmonic oscillator
arXiv:quant-ph/0507179 · doi:10.1142/S0217732305018384
Abstract
By taking a Klein-Gordon field as the environment of an harmonic oscillator and using a new method for dealing with quantum dissipative systems (minimal coupling method), the quantum dynamics and radiation reaction for a quantum damped harmonic oscillator investigated. Applying perturbation method, some transition probabilities indicating the way energy flows between oscillator, reservoir and quantum vacuum, obtained
12 pages. Accepted for publication in Mod. Phys. Lett. A