Instantaneous and dynamical decoherence

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AAB0ADMaRDI QIDQ4639429zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Janos Polonyi

Publication date 9 May 2018

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09945

zbMATH Keywords

classical limitdecoherenceinterferencesemiclassical approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: Two manifestations of decoherence, called instantaneous and dynamical, are investigated. The former reflects the suppression of the interference between the components of the current state while the latter reflects that within the initial state. These types of decoherence are computed in the case of the Brownian motion and the harmonic and anharmonic oscillators within the semiclassical approximation. A remarkable phenomenon, namely the opposite orientation of the time arrow of the dynamical variables compared to that of the quantum fluctuations generates a double exponential time dependence of the dynamical decoherence in the presence of a harmonic force. For the weakly anharmonic oscillator the dynamical decoherence is found to depend in a singular way on the amount of the anharmonicity.

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