DYNAMICS OF A QUANTUM PARTICLE IN ASYMMETRIC BISTABLE POTENTIAL WITH ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE
Pasquale Caldara, Angelo La Cognata, Davide Valenti, Bernardo Spagnolo, Marco Berritta, Elisabetta Paladino, G. Falci · International Journal of Quantum Information · 2011
In this work we analyze the dynamics of a quantum particle subject to an asymmetric bistable potential and interacting with a thermal reservoir. We obtain the time evolution of the population distributions in both energy and position eigenstates of the particle, for different values of the coupling strength with the thermal bath. The calculation is carried out using the Feynman-Vernon functional under the discrete variable representation.