Exactly solvable path integral for open cavities in terms of quasinormal modes

Details Exactly solvable path integral for open cavities in terms of quasinormal modes Exactly solvable path integral for open cavities in terms of quasinormal modes

1999-05-25

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9905082v1

Phys.Rev.E61:2367-2375,2000

Physics

Quantum Physics

REVTeX, 26 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. E

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.61.2367

We evaluate the finite-temperature Euclidean phase-space path integral for the generating functional of a scalar field inside a leaky cavity. Provided the source is confined to the cavity, one can first of all integrate out the fields on the outside to obtain an effective action for the cavity alone. Subsequently, one uses an expansion of the cavity field in terms of its quasinormal modes (QNMs)-the exact, exponentially damped eigenstates of the classical evolution operator, which previously have been shown to be complete for a large class of models. Dissipation causes the effective cavity action to be nondiagonal in the QNM basis. The inversion of this action matrix inherent in the Gaussian path integral to obtain the generating functional is therefore nontrivial, but can be accomplished by invoking a novel QNM sum rule. The results are consistent with those obtained previously using canonical quantization.

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