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Dynamics of a four-well system interacting with a dissipative environment Dubé, Martin

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The dynamics of sytems that can be mapped to a four-well problem in the presence of a dissipative environment is examined. The probabilities of finding the systems in one of the four state as a function of time are found in the limit of overdamped oscillations. Also in this limit, the time evolution of the density matrix of a four-well system is found. The diagonals elements are then rederived by considering an infinite chain of wells.

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Title	Dynamics of a four-well system interacting with a dissipative environment
Creator	Dubé, Martin
Publisher	University of British Columbia
Date Issued	1993
Description	The dynamics of sytems that can be mapped to a four-well problem in the presence of a dissipative environment is examined. The probabilities of finding the systems in one of the four state as a function of time are found in the limit of overdamped oscillations. Also in this limit, the time evolution of the density matrix of a four-well system is found. The diagonals elements are then rederived by considering an infinite chain of wells.
Extent	4508766 bytes
Genre	Thesis/Dissertation
Type	Text
File Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
Date Available	2008-09-10
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use.
DOI	10.14288/1.0085114
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1802
Degree	Master of Science - MSc
Program	Physics
Affiliation	Science, Faculty of; Physics and Astronomy, Department of
Degree Grantor	University of British Columbia
Graduation Date	1993-11
Campus	UBCV
Scholarly Level	Graduate
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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