Representations of canonical commutation relations describing infinite coherent states

DOI10.1007/S00220-016-2611-1MaRDI QIDQ329942zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Joye, M. Merkli

Publication date 24 October 2016

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02431

zbMATH Keywords

infinite volume cavityrandom phases

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Stochastic integrals (60H05) Coherent states (81R30) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: We investigate the infinite volume limit of quantized photon fields in multimode coherent states. We show that for states containing a continuum of coherent modes, it is mathematically and physically natural to consider their phases to be random and identically distributed. The infinite volume states give rise to Hilbert space representations of the canonical commutation relations which we construct concretely. In the case of random phases, the representations are random as well and can be expressed with the help of It^o stochastic integrals. We analyze the dynamics of the infinite state alone and the open system dynamics of small systems coupled to it. We show that under the free field dynamics, initial phase distributions are driven to the uniform distribution. We demonstrate that coherences in small quantum systems, interacting with the infinite coherent state, exhibit Gaussian time decay. The decoherence is qualitatively faster than the one caused by infinite thermal states, which is known to be exponentially rapid only. This emphasizes the classical character of coherent states.

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