Pointer basis induced by collisional decoherence

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/1/015303MaRDI QIDQ5852399zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Marc Busse, Klaus Hornberger

Publication date 27 January 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.1062

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: We study the emergence and dynamics of pointer states in the motion of a quantum test particle affected by collisional decoherence. These environmentally distinguished states are shown to be exponentially localized solitonic wave functions which evolve according to the classical equations of motion. We explain their formation using the orthogonal unraveling of the master equation, and we demonstrate that the statistical weights of the arising mixture are given by projections of the initial state onto the pointer basis.

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