Hamiltonian of mean force and a damped harmonic oscillator in an anisotropic medium

TL;DR

This paper models the quantum dynamics of a damped harmonic oscillator in an anisotropic medium, deriving thermodynamic quantities using a Hamiltonian approach with tensor coupling functions.

Contribution

It introduces a tensor-based anisotropic coupling model and derives the Hamiltonian of mean force for the damped oscillator.

Findings

Calculated mean force internal energy, free energy, and entropy.

Diagonalized the Hamiltonian using Fano technique.

Extended the quantum damping model to anisotropic environments.

Abstract

The quantum dynamics of a damped harmonic oscillator is investigated in the presence of an anisotropic heat bath. The medium is modeled by a continuum of three dimensional harmonic oscillators and anisotropic coupling is treated by introducing tensor coupling functions. Starting from a classical Lagrangian, the total system is quantized in the framework of the canonical quantization. Following Fano technique, Hamiltonian of the system is diagonalized in terms of creation and annihilation operators that are linear combinations of the basic dynamical variables. Using the diagonalized Hamiltonian, the mean force internal energy, free energy and entropy of the damped oscillator are calculated.