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Formation of correlations and energy-conservation at short time scales
The formation of correlations due to collisions in an interacting nucleonic
system is investigated. Results from one-time kinetic equations are compared
with the Kadanoff and Baym two-time equation with collisions included in Born
approximation. A reasonable agreement is found for a proposed approximation of
the memory effects by a finite duration of collisions. This form of collision
integral is in agreement with intuitive estimates from Fermi's golden rule. The
formation of correlations and the build up time is calculated analytically for
the high temperature and the low temperature limit. Different approximate
expressions are compared with the numerical results. We present analytically
the time dependent interaction energy and the formation time for Gau\ss{}- and
Yukawa type of potentials.Comment: Europ. Lournal Physics A accepte
Correlations in Many-Body Systems with Two-time Green's Functions
The Kadanoff-Baym (KB) equations are solved numerically for infinite nuclear
matter. In particular we calculate correlation energies and correlation times.
Approximating the Green's functions in the KB collision kernel by the free
Green's functions the Levinson equation is obtained. This approximation is
valid for weak interactions and/or low densities. It relates to the extended
quasi-classical approximation for the spectral function. Comparing the
Levinson, Born and KB calculations allows for an estimate of higher order
spectral corrections to the correlations. A decrease in binding energy is
reported due to spectral correlations and off-shell parts in the reduced
density matrix
An optical linewidth study of a chromoprotein-C-phycocyanin in a low-temperature glass
The temperature dependence of spectral holes burnt into a phycocyanin-doped ethylene glycol/water glass is investigated in the temperature range between 1.5 and 15 K. The data are well described by a power law with an exponent of 1.16 ± 0.1. Chromoproteins thus behave very much the same as glasses doped with small impurity molecules
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