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Effective potential approach to quantum dissipation in condensed matter systems

Alessandro Cuccoli, Andrea Fubini, Valerio Tognetti, Ruggero Vaia

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0002072

Abstract

The effects of dissipation on the thermodynamic properties of nonlinear quantum systems are approached by the path-integral method in order to construct approximate classical-like formulas for evaluating thermal averages of thermodynamic quantities. Explicit calculations are presented for one-particle and many-body systems. The effects of the dissipation mechanism on the phase diagram of two-dimensional Josephson arrays is discussed.

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