On the microscopic basis of Newton's law of cooling and beyond

Details On the microscopic basis of Newton's law of cooling and beyond On the microscopic basis of Newton's law of cooling and beyond

2008-01-28

arxiv.org/abs/0801.4247v1

The Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol.127, 094505 (2007)

Physics

Quantum Physics

16 pages, 1 Figure, Typos corrected

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The microscopic basis of Newton's law of cooling and its modification when the difference in temperature between the system and the surroundings is very large is discussed. When the system of interest is interacting with a small bath, the effect of the dynamical evolution of the bath variables is important to find out its dynamical feedback on the system. As in the usual system-bath approach, however, the bath is finally considered to be in thermal equilibrium and thereby provides an effective generalization of the Born-Markov master equation. It is shown that the cooling at early time is faster than that predicted by Newton's law due to the dynamical feedback of the bath.

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