Dephasing of a particle in a dissipative environment

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/41/002MaRDI QIDQ5423653zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Doron Cohen, Baruch Horovitz

Publication date 31 October 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.0965

zbMATH Keywords

Caldeira-Leggett limitdecoherence processMOnte Carlo

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

Abstract: The motion of a particle in a ring of length L is influenced by a dirty metal environment whose fluctuations are characterized by a short correlation distance $ell<<L$. We analyze the induced decoherence process, and compare the results with those obtained in the opposing Caldeira-Leggett limit ($ell>>L$). A proper definition of the dephasing factor that does not depend on a vague semiclassical picture is employed. Some recent Monte-Carlo results about the effect of finite temperatures on "mass renormalization" in this system are illuminated.

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