2. Reaction Coordinate Mapping
Let us consider the hamiltonian of the supersystem describing the interaction of a quantum system coupled with a single bath described by,
The bath spectral function can be defined as,
Let us consider an example of Reaction coordinate mapping before returning to the present context. Let us consider a quantum system coupled to a bath which itself has infinite number of degrees of freedom described by infinite number of bath modes (energy levels) with each of them is represented by a harmonic oscillator. With
being any arbitrary system operator the Hamiltonian of the entire supersystem i.e. system coupled to the bath can be written as,
In general the system Hamiltonian can be time independent. After decomposing the above Hamiltonian we get,
The usual commutation relations are,
Let us define the spectral function of the bath as,
Figure 1.
Reaction Coordinate mapping
Figure 1.
Reaction Coordinate mapping
Now let us consider the Reaction Coordinate mapping as shown in the figure which enables us to separate one of the modes called the reaction mode or reaction coordinate from the infinite number of bath modes such that the system is now interacting with that particular segregated reaction coordinate which in turn coupled to the rest of the modes of the bath which we call residual bath modes. In this way we can visualise the system is interacting with one reaction coordinate which is connected or coupled to the residual bath. The situation after one such steps of Reaction coordinate mapping the hamiltonian will be as follows,
describes the Hamiltonian of the system after one step of reaction coordinate mapping which can be treated as an unitary transformation of the Hamiltonian before the RC mapping i.e.
. Now, the exactness of the mapping which depicts the equivalence between the situation before and after the reaction coordinate mapping is given by,
The above reaction coordinate mapping can be visualized as a transformation from one set of normal modes (coordinates) say
to
defined by an orthogonal transformation the later being required to preserve the usual commutation relations of the newly defined normal mode coordinates. And as the bath has been represented by infinite number of modes in a discreet sense then later we will take the thermodynamic limit i.e.
. Let us define the following transformation
and
with a claim that
has to be an orthogonal matrix which we are going to derive. From now on-wards we will use the natural unit system with
.
Hence we can see that to preserve the commutation relations of the newly defined set of normal mode coordinates i.e.
the transformation has to be orthogonal with
. The condition of orthogonality along with
leads to,
Now applying the inverse orthogonal transformation by writing
and
the hamiltonian becomes,
The mathematical deduction of the above is as follows.
Using the fact that,
we get,
where we have identified the following,
Now, by using the definition of the Bath spectral function i.e.
we can express the new parameters mainly,
in terms of the old bath spectral function i.e. the one we have defined before the Reaction Coordinate mapping. Just to note that,
defines the new system-bath coupling strength alternatively we can call it the coupling strength quantifying the interaction between the system and the reaction coordinate. Similarly,
defines the frequency of the Reaction coordinate. The idea is to express the newly defined quantities in terms of the older (known) quantities. We have defined,
One important property of this RC mapping is the Scaling transformation property. If the interaction coefficient
is transformed to
before the reaction coordinate mapping then only
and
will be affected by this scaling transformation. To show it mathematically we can write,
From the above calculation it is evident that the on site energy of the reaction coordinate i.e.
remains unaffected by the scaling parameter
. Similarly we can show that the new coupling coefficient describing the coupling between the reaction coordinate and residual reservoir will be unaffected by the parameter
. Now let us define the spectral function of the residual bath or residual reservoir as,
Now the job is to express the spectral function of the residual bath i.e. with the older bath spectral function (one before the RC mapping) i.e. .
Now we would like to extend the above idea of reaction coordinate mapping in the general situation described by,
Where,
being any arbitrary hermitian operator corresponding to the system. An alternative scenario of the system bath coupling can be described by,
. In this situation
is non-hermitian. Lets illustrate it by an example with the spin boson model hamiltonian dsescribed by,
The hamiltonians
and
describes the above two situations. The only difference between the two hamiltonians is that for the first case scenario with
does not commute with the total excitation number operator i.e.
which means that
is not a conserved quantity in this case. But in the second case we can write,
which means that
is a conserved quantity which is the outcome of the Global U(1) symmetry. Now we can define the normal mode coordinate transformation as follows,
This kind of transformation is called a symplectic transformation. There is another way to define the transformation defined as,
The difference between the transformations of two kinds are noteworthy. In the first case the transformation mix up the creation and annihilation operators of the bath modes before and after the reaction coordinate mapping where as in the second case such mixing doesn’t happen. The later case is just an unitary transformation. The condition of unitarity and symplecticity are hereby imposed to preserve the commutation (anti-commutation) relations of the bosonic (fermionic) creation and annihilation operators.
Derivation of Symplecticity and Unitarity: For bosons and fermionic mapping case we must have,
The condition essentially preserve the necessary commutation (anti-commutation) relations for the bosonic and fermionic mapping case for the creation and annihilation operators corresponding to the new and older normal modes. We have defined in general for any two operator
and
,
Now for the fermionic case we have,
For the bosonic case the same calculation as above keeping in mind that the commutation relations holds we get,
Summing up those results we can write
plus (minus) signs appears in the case of fermionic (bosonic) mapping case respectively. The mapping enables us to achieve a reaction coordinate mapping of the following form given below with
being real such that with a Bogoliubov transformation,
we can establish a mapping of the following type,
The exactness of the mapping is given by the condition that,
The above is true for both the bosonic and fermionic case. In order to prove further results related to the symplectic case let us consider the relatively easy case of unitary mapping which is obtained by putting,
. Then the transformations will be,
Which gives the condition of unitarity which holds for both the fermionic and bosonic mapping. This kind of transformation maps the hamiltonian
with
such that,
Now for the bosonic case with the unitary mapping from the exactness condition of mapping we can write,
Let us define the bath spectral function of the original bath before the RC mapping as ,
We can express the new quantities i.e.
in terms of
.We can write assuming
being real that,
with
being real we can also write that,
Now for the fermionic mapping case, the above results will also hold but the mapping has to be written in such a way that the fermionic anti-commutation relations are satisfied. We can write
For the fermionic situation the frequency corresponding to the bath modes can be negative as well .In this case the above results will still hold along with the exactness condition of the mapping such that with,
which leads to,
along with the condition of unitarity
. Similarly we can write,
. In terms of the old spectral function
we can write,
The above mapping is called fermionic particle mapping. Now lets come back to the discussion of the symplectic mapping to be more precise the symplecticity imposed along with the Bogoliubov transformation. The idea is to map the hamiltonian in the first quantized form i.e. in terms of position and momentum operators with the fact that the transformation when written in terms of position and momentum operators corresponding to individual bath modes it will become an orthogonal transformation to preserve the desired commutation relations for the bosonic case. We have previously defined that,
Now let us define the two sets of position-momentum operators corresponding to the old and new sets of normal mode (coordinates). such that,
From the transformation laws we can clearly see that the preservation of commutation relations require that,
So, the transformation is strictly orthogonal. Using the transformation laws we can write,
Now along with the transformation
and
we can write,
With the Bogoliubov condition the transformation laws can be written as,
On comparison we can also write,
The above relation puts a constraint over the matrix element (elements of the first column) of orthogonal transformation. Now from the orthogonality condition we get,
we can write, with
that,
Now after transforming the Hamiltonian in terms of position and momentum operators i.e.
and then making the transformation to the new set of coordinates i.e.
we can again convert it back in terms of new set of creation and annihilation operators i.e.
we can write,
In the above group of equations we have identified
. Let the new spectral function of the residual bath be,
Now the next job is to express the Residual bath spectral function in terms of the old bath spectral function
which we will find for both type of mapping cases, the symplectic and unitary situations. For establishing the relation between the new spectral function of the residual bath and the old bath spectral function (the one before the reaction coordinate mapping) we can use two different techniques. Let us consider the mapping between the two Hamiltonians
and
such that,
2.1. Establishing the relation between the Spectral function of the residual bath and the old bath after one step of reaction coordinate mapping
Replacing the system Hamiltonian by the classical hamiltonian[
1][
2] of a generalised coordinate
q moving in a potential
we can write a classical hamiltonian also by replacing the bath modes by the classical position and momentum observables i.e. the canonically conjugate classical entities we will get from the initial hamiltonian that,
And the classical counterpart of the transformed hamiltonian (the one obtained after making the reaction coordinate transformation) will be,
From
135 we can write the classical Hamilton’s equations of motion for
q and
such that,
Let us define the fourier transform of any arbitrary function
as,
Taking the fourier transformation of
138 and 140 respectively we get,
after eliminating
from the above equations we can write,
Where
has been defined as a Fourier space operator defined as,
Now using
134 we can write,
Where we have used the property that,
.It allows us to define the Cauchy transformation of the older bath spectral function
defined as,
Using the definition of the Cauchy transform of
we can directly express the Fourier space operator in terms of
such that,
Using the Cauchy residue theorem we can calculate the integral [
149] by calculating the residue of the integrand at the point
, a pole type singularity of order 1 such that,
We can write with,
Now the Fourier space operator can be further simplified by using the contour integral evaluation such that,
It is interesting to note that,
Now lets use the same set of tricks to find out the hamilton’s equations of motion from the transformed hamiltonian
for
and
from equation [
136] we can write,
Altogther we write the equations for
and
as,
Now taking the fourier transformation at both sides of the above equations we can write,
Now eliminating
and
from the above equations and expressing everything in terms of the action of the Fourier space operator on
we can write,
Such that the above equation can be expressed as,
. Where we have defined the Fourier space operator
as,
Defining the Cauchy transformation of the Residual bath spectral function
as before with,
we can write
Due to the equivalence of the reaction coordinate mapping we can compare [
151] and [
179] we get,
Let us define the transformed system renormalization term as,
Again from the definition of the Cauchy transformation of
we can directly write that
. Such that in general we can write for
,
The above equation along with the fact that,
we can find the relation between
and
given by,
Proceeding in the same manner as before we can write,
such that from equation [
188] we can write by replacing
we get,
Such that we can directly write,
Now we can express the denominator of the above equation in terms of Cauchy principle value integral and the old bath spectral function i.e.
. By definition,
Using the fact that the Dirac delta function can be expressed as a limiting form of the Lorentzian with vanishingly small width such that,
Then we can finally determine
from
using the equation,
It is important to note that as pointed out before that the scaling transformation of
with
only affects
and
with the other quantities like
and the spectral function of the residual bath i.e.
remain unaffected by the scaling transformation. Now the transformed Hamiltonian i.e.
can be expressed in terms of
and the modified system renormalization term
by using [
189] and [
187] as follows,
Now using the same steps we can find the relation between the spectral function of the residual bath and the spectral function of the old bath for the symplectic mapping discussed before along with the Bogoliubov transformations discussed before. For the mapping between the two hamiltonians achieved through the symplectic transformation with
and
we have,
Again by defining
and the bath spectral function
Then, again proceeding in the same fashion i.e. by replacing the system hamiltonian by a classical coordinate
q moving in a potential
along with the replacement of the system operator
by
q and the bath mode operators by usual position and momentum operators we can write the classical counterpart of the initial hamiltonian and the transformed hamiltonian respectively as,
Now the hamilton’s equations of motion for
q and
from the hamiltonian
will be,
After taking the fourier transform of the both sides of the above equations just like before and then eliminating
we found,
Like before again we can define the cauchy transformation of
such that,
Such that, the fourier space operator becomes,
. Further calculation using the fact that,
we get
Further evaluating the integral using the cauchy residue theorem we get,
and then replacing
we get,
Now similarly from the Hamilton’s equations of motion of the transformed hamiltonian i.e.
we can write,
Taking the Fourier transform of both sides of above written equations we can write,
Eliminating
and
and expressing everything in terms of
we can write the operator equation such that,
We define the spectral function of the Residual bath as,
with,
we can write,
Where we have used the fact that,
Now we can compare [
213] and [
226] them such that with the exactness condition of the RC Mapping we can directly write,
From the above equation we can write,
Such that with,
for
we can write a slightly modified equation connecting
and
such that,
Then following the same method and with
we can write,
Now lets simplify the denominator part which can be written in terms of the older bath spectral function and the Cauchy principle value of
. We can write,
Then we can finally write,
2.2. Equation of motion technique to find the relation between the Residual bath spectral function and the Initial spectral function for the case of particle and phonon mapping
The mapping visualized by the symplectic mapping is called the phonon mapping and the one achieved through the unitary transformation is called the particle mapping. In this section we will discuss the most general way to map between the spectral functions using the Heisenberg equation of motion technique[
3]for both the cases of phonon and particle mapping for both the bosonic and fermionic case. First lets consider the situation for the phonon mapping.
2.2.1. Heisenberg Equation of motion technique for the phonon mapping
Phon mapping maps the two hamiltonians
and
such that,
Now for any arbitrary hermitian operator of the system say,
we can write the Heisenberg equation of motion for it. We have,
such that,
Where we have defined,
and
and also keeping in mind that any arbitrary operator
can be expressed in the Heisenberg picture such that,
Then let us define the Fourier transformation of any arbitrary operator
such that,
Taking the Fourier transformation of the both sides of the above equations we get,
It is important to note that, the operators
and
will not be hermitian conjugate anymore in the fourier space and this is also true for
and
as well. We can see that,
To derive the last equation we have used the convolution property of the Fourier transform. Lets illustrate it mathematically starting from the definition of convolution. In general the convolution of two functions
and
is defined as follows,
such that the Fourier transform of the convolution of two functions is the product of their individual Fourier transformations. Such that,
Where in the last step we have invoked the shifting property of the Fourier transformation. So, thye inverse fourier transformation of the product of the fourier transformations of the functions
and
will be the convolution of the two functions i.e.
. Such that, in the above mentioned heisenberg equation of motion for
we can write,
Using the inverse fourier transfomation result with,
Then substituting
and
from [
251,252] and then substituting it back in [253] we can write,
It is important to note that,
and the fact that,
. Now applying the same set of Heisenberg equations of motion for any arbitrary hermitian operator of the system as mentioned in this context
starting from the hamiltonian obtained after the reaction coordinate mapping i.e.
such that we can write,
Again by taking the fourier transformation of both sides of the equations and then eliminating the operators
and then
sequentially we can write the following equations.
Now by defining
and the Cauchy transformation of
as
by,
Such that by invoking,
we can finally write,
Now by comparing [
287] and [
271] we can write that,
Now by substituting
we can write,
by using the fact that,
for
and
. We have already shown the identity for
i.e.
The result can be generalized by writing in terms of a recursive relation which relates the bath spectral function at the present step with that in the preceding step such that,
2.2.2. Heisenberg equation of motion technique for the particle mapping in the Bosonic context
Now we will derive the relation between the Spectral density function of the Residual bath and that of the initial bath using the Heisenberg equation of motion technique in the case of the particle mapping which maps the two hamiltonians
and
such that,
Now for any Hermitian operator
for the system we can write the heisenberg equation of motion with the hamiltonians
and
respectively. Starting with the Heisenberg equation of motion with
at the first place we can write,
After substituting
we get,
Where in the above equations we have defined,
and
such that we can write,
. And just to mention that any operator
in the Heisenberg picture is defined as,
Now taking the fourier transfomation of the both sides of the equations we can write with
,
. Now we can write the Heisenberg equation of motion starting from the transformed hamiltonian
such that for any arbitrary operator
in the heisenberg picture we can write,
such that fore the system operator
and for
and
we can write the equations of motion in the Heisenberg picture such that,
Taking the fourier transformation we get,
After a little bit algebraic simplification we can write,
Then after substituting
and
in [
317] along with a little simplification we get,
Now by comparing equation[
324] and [
309] we can write,
putting
in the above equation we get,
It is important to note that the two equations written above are not independent of each other. If we replace
in the first equation then we obtain the second one. Then we can write,
Substituting
writing,
Using the fact that,
we can write,
Now comparing the imaginary part and taking the limit
we can write,
Now from [
336] we can finally write,
which essentially gives the relation between the Spectral function of the residual reservoir to that of the bath spectral function before the RC mapping.
2.3. Heisenberg Equation of motion technique for Fermionic particle mapping case
In this section we will derive the relation between the bath spectral functions before and after the RC mapping for the fermionic case using the Heisenberg equation of motion technique. In the fermionic particle mapping we discuss the mapping between the hamiltonians
and
such that,
While writing the interaction Hamiltonian to maintain the hermiticity we have properly used the fermionic anti-commutation relation. The for the system operator
and
with the Hamiltonian
in the first instance, we can write the Heisenberg equation of motion such that with,
Where
being any arbitrary operator in the Heisenberg representation.
Where we have defined
such that,
Taking the Fourier transformation of the both sides of above equations we get,
Now writing the Heisenberg equation of motion for
with the transformed Hamiltonian i.e.
we get,
Taking the fourier transformation of both sides of the above equations we get,
Now comparing equation [
351] and [
358] we can write,
Now we can write theb terms inside summation in terms of integrals such that,
Now replacing
with
at both sides of [
359] we get,
From [
362] we can write by comparing the imaginary part of the above equation,
Now taking
of the both sides of the equation and using [
363], [364] we can write,
Where we have used the fact that,