Abstract
The weak coupling limit for a quantum system, with discrete spectrum, in interaction with a quantum field reservoir is considered. Depending on the nature of the reservoir (i.e. bosonic or fermionic) and the degree of nonlinearity of the interaction, we discover that either a bosonization or fermionization of the collective multi-linear reservoir operators emerges. The stochastic evolution is determined after the weak coupling limit and is shown to be unitary: also we show that our calculations for the system-only dynamics coincide with those previously postulated by physicists.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 41-65 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | Open Systems and Information Dynamics |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jan 1998 |
| Externally published | Yes |