Universal Markovian reduction of Brownian particle dynamics

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2010-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/1010.4718v1

J. Chem. Phys. 134, 011101 (2011)

Physics

Quantum Physics

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3532408

Non-Markovian processes can often be turned Markovian by enlarging the set of variables. Here we show, by an explicit construction, how this can be done for the dynamics of a Brownian particle obeying the generalized Langevin equation. Given an arbitrary bath spectral density $J_{0}$, we introduce an orthogonal transformation of the bath variables into effective modes, leading stepwise to a semi-infinite chain with nearest-neighbor interactions. The transformation is uniquely determined by $J_{0}$ and defines a sequence $\{J_{n}\}_{n\in\mathbb{N}}$ of residual spectral densities describing the interaction of the terminal chain mode, at each step, with the remaining bath. We derive a simple, one-term recurrence relation for this sequence, and show that its limit is the quasi-Ohmic expression provided by the Rubin model of dissipation. Numerical calculations show that, irrespective of the details of $J_{0}$, convergence is fast enough to be useful in practice for an effective Markovian reduction of quantum dissipative dynamics.

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