Effects of Dissipation on Quantum Phase Slippage in Charge Density Wave Systems

TL;DR

This paper investigates how dissipation affects quantum phase slippage in charge density wave systems, concluding that dissipation has negligible impact in experimental conditions.

Contribution

It introduces a semiclassical model incorporating ohmic dissipation to analyze vortex ring creation in CDWs, providing insights into dissipation effects on quantum phase slippage.

Findings

Dissipation effects are negligible in typical experiments.

The model describes vortex ring dynamics with dissipation.

Comparison with experiments supports the minimal impact of dissipation.

Abstract

We study the effect of the dissipation on the quantum phase slippage via the creation of ``vortex ring'' in charge density wave (CDW) systems. The dissipation is assumed to come from the interaction with the normal electron near and inside of the vortex core. We describe the CDW by extracted macroscopic degrees of freedom, that is, the CDW phase and the radius of the ``vortex ring'', assume the ohmic dissipation, and investigate the effect in the context of semiclassical approximation. The obtained results are discussed in comparison with experiments. It turns out that the effect of such a dissipation can be neglected in experiments.