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Phys. Rev. E 78, 021123 (2008) [15 pages]

Directed motion in a periodic potential of a quantum system coupled to a heat bath driven by a colored noise

Satyabrata Bhattacharya,1 Pinaki Chaudhury,2 Sudip Chattopadhyay,1 and Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri3
1Department of Chemistry, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah 711103, India
2Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta, Kolkata 700009, India
3Department of Physics, Katwa College, Katwa, Burdwan 713130, India

Received 26 May 2008; published 18 August 2008

A system-reservoir nonlinear coupling model is proposed for a quantum system when the associated bath is not in thermal equilibrium but is modulated by an external colored noise, to present a microscopic approach to quantum state-dependent diffusion and multiplicative noise in terms of a quantum Langevin description. Consequently, the Fokker-Planck equation in position space, valid in the overdamped limit, for multiplicative colored noise is constructed to explore the possibility of observing a quantum current and dependence of the current on various parameters of external noise is examined.

©2008 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021123
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.78.021123
PACS: 05.40.-a
  • 05.40.-a
    Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion
  • YEAR: 2008
KEYWORDS: Fokker-Planck equation, quantum theory, thermal diffusion, thermal noise

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