Radiation reaction and quantum damped harmonic oscillator

Abstract

By taking a Klein-Gordon field as the environment of a harmonic oscillator and using a new method for dealing with quantum dissipative systems (minimal coupling method), we find out the quantum dynamics and radiation reaction for a quantum damped harmonic oscillator. Applying perturbation method, we obtain some transition probabilities indicating the way energy flows between oscillator, reservoir and quantum vacuum. © World Scientific Publishing Company.