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Abstract

The relaxation of a nondegenerate two-level quantum system linearly and off-diagonally coupled to a thermal bath of quantum-mechanical harmonic oscillators is studied. The population and phase relaxation times, T1 and T2, are calculated to fourth order in the system/bath interaction. Focus is on a specific model of the bath spectral density that is both Ohmic (proportional to frequency at low frequency) and Lorentzian, and which has the property that, in the semiclassical or high-temperature limit, it reproduces the stochastic model studied previously by Budimir and Skinner [J. Stat. Phys. 49, 1029 (1987)]. For this fully quantum-mechanical model, it is found that under certain conditions the standard inequality, T2≤2T1, is violated, demonstrating that this unusual result, which was originally derived from the (infinite-temperature) stochastic model, is valid at finite temperature as well.

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Laird, B. B., & Skinner, J. L. (1991). T 2 can be greater than 2T1 even at finite temperature. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 94(6), 4405–4410.

Authors 2
  1. Brian B. Laird (first)
  2. James L. Skinner (additional)
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Created 23 years, 1 month ago (July 26, 2002, 8:20 a.m.)
Deposited 1 year, 6 months ago (Feb. 10, 2024, 7:47 a.m.)
Indexed 1 year, 6 months ago (Feb. 10, 2024, 3:21 p.m.)
Issued 34 years, 5 months ago (March 15, 1991)
Published 34 years, 5 months ago (March 15, 1991)
Published Print 34 years, 5 months ago (March 15, 1991)
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@article{Laird_1991, title={T 2 can be greater than 2T1 even at finite temperature}, volume={94}, ISSN={1089-7690}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.460627}, DOI={10.1063/1.460627}, number={6}, journal={The Journal of Chemical Physics}, publisher={AIP Publishing}, author={Laird, Brian B. and Skinner, James L.}, year={1991}, month=mar, pages={4405–4410} }