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Phys. Rev. E 80, 041127 (2009) [14 pages]

Quantum transport in a periodic symmetric potential of a driven quantum system

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 8 July 2009; published 23 October 2009

A system-reservoir nonlinear coupling model has been proposed to the situation when the system is driven externally by a random force and the associated bath is kept in thermal equilibrium, in an attempt to put forth a microscopic approach to quantum state-dependent diffusion and multiplicative noises in terms of a quantum Langevin equation in the overdamped limit (quantum Smoluchowski equation). We then obtain the analytical expression for phase induced quantum current in a periodic potential when the external noise has finite correlation time and explore the dependence of the current on various parameters related to the external noise, for example, the noise strength.

©2009 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041127
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.041127
PACS: 05.60.Gg; 42.50.Lc
  • 05.60.Gg
    Quantum transport
  • 42.50.Lc
    Quantum fluctuations, quantum noise, and quantum jumps (quantum optics)
  • YEAR: 2009
KEYWORDS: diffusion, quantum theory, random processes

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