Decoherence in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2010.12.014MaRDI QIDQ549168zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jurjen F. Koksma, T. Prokopec, Michael G. Schmidt

Publication date 7 July 2011

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.3701

zbMATH Keywords

entropyquantum mechanicsdecoherencequantum field theorycorrelators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: We study decoherence in a simple quantum mechanical model using two approaches. Firstly, we follow the conventional approach to decoherence where one is interested in solving the reduced density matrix from the perturbative master equation. Secondly, we consider our novel correlator approach to decoherence where entropy is generated by neglecting observationally inaccessible correlators. We show that both methods can accurately predict decoherence time scales. However, the perturbative master equation generically suffers from instabilities which prevents us to reliably calculate the system's total entropy increase. We also discuss the relevance of the results in our quantum mechanical model for interacting field theories.

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