Coherence theory and coherence phenomena in a closed spin-1/2 system

DOI10.1002/ANDP.200710300MaRDI QIDQ3510901zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Olavi Dannenberg

Publication date 3 July 2008

Published in Annalen der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0605167

zbMATH Keywords

closed quantum systemcoherencedecoherence time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

Abstract: A simplified Heisenberg spin model is studied in order to examine the idea of decoherence in closed quantum systems. For this purpose, we present a quantifiable definition to quantum coherence $Xi$, and discuss in some detail a general coherence theory and its elementary results. As expected, decoherence is understood as a statistical process that is caused by the dynamics of the system, similar to the growth of entropy. It appears that coherence is an important measure that helps to understand quantum properties of a system, e.g., the decoherence time can be derived from the coherence function $Xi(t)$, but not from the entropy dynamics. Moreover, the concept of decoherence time is applicable in closed and finite systems. However, in most cases, the decay of off-diagonal elements differs from the usual $exp(-t/a{u}_{md})$ behaviour. For concreteness, we report the form of decoherence time $a{u}_{md}$ in a finite Heisenberg model with respect to the number of particles $N$, density $n_{ho}$, spatial dimension $D$ and $epsilon$ in a $eta/r^{epsilon}$-type of potential.

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