Statistical Mechanics of Assemblies of Coupled Oscillators
- 1 April 1965
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 6 (4), 504-515
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1704304
Abstract
It is shown that a system of coupled harmonic oscillators can be made a model of a heat bath. Thus a particle coupled harmonically to the bath and by an arbitrary force to a fixed center will (in an appropriate limit) exhibit Brownian motion. Both classical and quantum mechanical treatments are given.Keywords
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