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Coupling between environment and ultrastrongly interacting composite system Motoaki Bamba∗ and Tetsuo Ogawa Department of Physics, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan (Dated: June 11, 2013) In the presence of ultrastrong interactions in system of interest, we show a general procedure for deriving Hamiltonians of system-environment couplings that are expressed by system fields at the boundaries but do not depend on the detail of system of interest in good cavity limit. The coupling Hamiltonians are derived from Lagrangians giving the boundary conditions. The dissipative behavior of system of interest strongly depends on whether the two couplings (system-environment coupling and ultrastrong interactions) are expressed by canonical coordinates or momenta of the system fields. 3 1 0 In the principles of quantum mechanics, we cannot (electric or magnetic fields for photons, magnetic flux 2 observe a system-of-interest (SoI) without modifying its or charge in circuit QED, etc.). In theoretical studies, n state, and signals are measured through coupling between the treatment of SEC has been discussed for given cou- u the SoI and its environment. Whereas the signals in pling Hamiltonians [8, 23], and many theoretical propos- J principle depend on the system-environment couplings als are raised including the measurement outside the ul- 0 (SECs), in many cases the couplings can be simply char- trastrongly interacting composite systems [24–26]. How- 1 acterized by di