Dynamics and critical behaviour of the spin-boson model

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• Andreas Alvermann, University of Cambridge
• Thursday 04 November 2010, 14:15-15:15
• TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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The spin-boson model, describing a two-state system coupled to a bath of harmonic oscillators, serves as a paradigmatic example for quantum dissipative systems. Notable effects are the non-Markovian character of spin dynamics and the existence of a quantum phase transition at stronger dissipation. The talk will discuss selected aspects of the spin-boson model, including the controversy about the nature of the sub-ohmic quantum phase transition and its resolution. The basis of our investigation is a recently developed numerical approach, which extends the application range of exact diagonalization techniques to open quantum systems with continuous bath degrees of freedom.

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