QUANTUM DISSIPATION AND QUANTUM NOISE Y.N.Srivastava +y, G.Vitiello and A.Widom.pdfVIP

QUANTUM DISSIPATION AND QUANTUM NOISEY.N.Srivastava+;y, G.Vitiello and A.Widom+;y+Physics Department, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USAyDipartimento di Fisica, I.N.F.N., Universita di Perugia, I06100 Perugia, ItalyDipartimento di Fisica, I.N.F.N., Universita di Salerno, I84100 Salerno, Italy Abstract. We derive the exact action for a damped mechanical system ( and the specialcase of the linear oscillator) from the path integral formulation of the quantum Brownianmotion problem developed by Schwinger and by Feynman and Vernon. The doublingof the phase-space degrees of freedom f