Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1997-12-01
Physics
Condensed Matter
4 pages, revtex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4370
Recent developments have made possible the computation of equilibrium dynamical correlators in quantum impurity problems. In many situations however, one is rather interested in correlators subject to a non equilibrium initial preparation; this is the case for instance for the occupation probability $P(t)$ in the double well problem of dissipative quantum mechanics (DQM). We show in this paper how to handle this situation in the framework of integrable quantum field theories by introducing ``boundary interactions changing operators''. We determine the properties of these operators by using an axiomatic approach similar in spirit to what is done for form-factors. This allows us to obtain new exact results for $P(t)$; for instance, we find that that at large times (or small $g$), the leading behaviour for $g < 1/2}$ is $P(t)\propto e^{-\Gamma t}\cos\Omega t$, with the universal ratio. $\Omega/\Gamma = \cot {\pi g}/{2(1-g)}$.
Lesage François
Saleur Herbert
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