THE NOVEL PROPERTIES OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN INDEPENDENT OSCILLATOR MODEL

The novel properties of the environment are found in independent oscil lator model. 1) If the initial state of the composite system lies in t hermal equilibrium, then, the environment is equipartition of energy, which, however, is moving with the system. 2) When the environment is in thermal equilibrium, but the system deviates from it at the beginni ng, the environment is no longer equipartition of energy, but which st ill moves with the system. These properties are quite different from t hose of the collection of oscillators discussed by Ford et al. (see Re f. [9]).