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Anomalous diffusion in quantum Brownian motion with colored noise

G. W. Ford

R. F. O’Connell*

  • Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1120, USA

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4001, USA

  • *Electronic address: oconnell@phys.lsu.edu

Phys. Rev. A 73, 032103 – Published 7 March, 2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.032103

Abstract

Anomalous diffusion is discussed in the context of quantum Brownian motion with colored noise. It is shown that earlier results follow simply and directly from the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. The limits on the long-time dependence of anomalous diffusion are shown to be a consequence of the second law of thermodynamics. The special case of an electron interacting with the radiation field is discussed in detail. We apply our results to wave-packet spreading.

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