In this paper, we formulate and study the quantum counterpart of the energy equipartition theorem for a charged quantum particle moving in a harmonic potential in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field and linearly coupled to a passive quantum heat bath through coordinate variables. The bath is modeled as a collection of independent quantum harmonic oscillators. We derive closed form expressions for the mean kinetic and potential energies of the charged dissipative magneto-oscillator in the forms $E_k=\langle {\mathcal{E}}_k\rangle$ and $E_p=\langle {\mathcal{E}}_p\rangle$, respectively, where ${\mathcal{E}}_k$ and ${\mathcal{E}}_p$ denote the average kinetic and potential energies of individual thermostat oscillators. The net averaging is twofold; the first one is over the Gibbs canonical state for the thermostat, giving ${\mathcal{E}}_k$ and ${\mathcal{E}}_p$, and the second one, denoted by $\langle ·\rangle$, is over the frequencies $\omega$ of the bath oscillators which contribute to $E_k$ and $E_p$ according to probability distributions ${\mathcal{P}}_k\left(\omega \right)$ and ${\mathcal{P}}_p\left(\omega \right)$, respectively. The relationship of the present quantum version of the equipartition theorem with that of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (within the linear-response theory framework) is also explored. Further, we investigate the influence of the external magnetic field and the effect of different dissipation processes through Gaussian decay and Drude and radiation bath spectral density functions on the typical properties of ${\mathcal{P}}_k\left(\omega \right)$ and ${\mathcal{P}}_p\left(\omega \right)$. Finally, the role of system-bath coupling strength and the memory effect is analyzed in the context of average kinetic and potential energies of the dissipative charged magneto-oscillator.

• Received 15 June 2021
• Revised 19 November 2021
• Accepted 22 November 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.104.064112