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Continuum limit frozen Gaussian approximation for the reduced thermal density matrix of dissipative systems
1Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovoth, Israel.
Abstract:
A continuum limit frozen Gaussian approximation is formulated for the reduced thermal density matrix for dissipative systems. The imaginary time dynamics is obtained from a novel generalized Langevin equation for the system coordinates. The method is applied to study the thermal density in a double well potential in the presence of Ohmic-like friction. We find that the approximation describes correctly the delocalization of the density due to quantization of the vibrations in the well. It also accounts for the friction induced reduction of the tunneling density in the barrier region.
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