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Logarithmic subdiffusion from a damped bath model
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Logarithmic subdiffusion from a damped bath model

Thomas Guff and Andrea Rocco
Physical Review E, Vol.113(4), pp.044124-1-044124-7
16/04/2026

Abstract

Open quantum systems Diffusion Brownian motion

A damped oscillator heat bath model is a modification of the standard heat bath model, wherein each bath oscillator itself has a Markovian coupling to its own heat bath [A. V. Plyukhin, Phys. Rev. E 99, 052125 (2019)]. We modify such a model to one where the resulting damping of the oscillators is linear in their frequency rather than being a constant. We find that this generates a memory kernel which behaves like π‘˜β‘(𝑑)∼1/𝑑 as π‘‘β†’βˆž, which is a boundary case not considered in previous works. As the memory kernel does not have a finite integral, the reduced system is subdiffusive, and we numerically show that diffusion goes as βŸ¨Ξ”⁒𝑄2⁑(𝑑)βŸ©βˆΌπ‘‘/ln⁑(𝑑) as π‘‘β†’βˆž. We also numerically calculate the velocity correlation function in the asymptotic regime and use it to confirm the aforementioned subdiffusion.

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