2007/03/16 by G. W. Ford, R. F. O'Connell · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.stat-mech
published as Phys. Rev. B 75, 134301 (2007) · Phys. Rev. B, in press
arxiv created 2007/03/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Small systems (of interest in the areas of nanophysics, quantum information, etc.) are particularly vulnerable to environmental effects. Thus, we determine various thermodynamic functions for an oscillator in an arbitrary heat bath at arbitrary temperatures. Explicit results are presented for the most commonly discussed heat bath models: Ohmic, single relaxation time and blackbody radiation.