Quantum fluctuations in mesoscopic systems

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DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA84D2zbMATH Open1390.81063arXiv1708.02752OpenAlexW3106433688MaRDI QIDQ4595421FDOQ4595421


Authors: F. Benatti, F. Carollo, R. Floreanini, Heide Narnhofer Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 30 November 2017

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

Abstract: Recent experimental results point to the existence of coherent quantum phenomena in systems made of a large number of particles, despite the fact that for many-body systems the presence of decoherence is hardly negligible and emerging classicality is expected. This behaviour hinges on collective observables, named quantum fluctuations, that retain a quantum character even in the thermodynamic limit: they provide useful tools for studying properties of many-body systems at the mesoscopic level, in between the quantum microscopic scale and the classical macroscopic one. We hereby present the general theory of quantum fluctuations in mesoscopic systems and study their dynamics in a quantum open system setting, taking into account the unavoidable effects of dissipation and noise induced by the external environment. As in the case of microscopic systems, decoherence is not always the only dominating effect at the mesoscopic scale: certain type of environments can provide means for entangling collective fluctuations through a purely noisy mechanism.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02752




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