VARIATIONAL STUDY OF A DISSIPATIVE QUANTUMTUNNELING SYSTEM

The ground states of phonons in a dissipative quantum tunneling system and their influences on the localiza ion-delocalization transtion are investigated by a variational approach. We find that: 1. There are two kind of influences, displacement and deformation, on phonon states due to coupling with a tunneling particle, and displaced -squeezed states are proposed to describe both these influences. 2. The localization-delocahzation transition depends on the choice of phonon ground state. The transition will occur at strong coupling as the energy of the ground state decreases.