Wave packet motion and decoherence in an anharmonic potential

DOI10.1002/PROP.200310014MaRDI QIDQ4804148zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 10 April 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0208141

zbMATH Keywords

Wigner functionMorse potentialMarkovian master equationnonequidistant spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Quantum optics (81V80) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: The time evolution of anharmonic molecular wave packets is investigated under the influence of the environment consisting of harmonic oscillators. These oscillators represent photon or phonon modes and assumed to be in thermal equilibrium. Our model explicitly incorporates the fact that in the case of a nonequidistant spectrum the rates of the environment induced transitions are different for each transition. The nonunitary time evolution is visualized by the aid of the Wigner function related to the vibrational state of the molecule. The time scale of decoherence is much shorter than that of dissipation, and gives rise to states which are mixtures of localized states along the phase space orbit of the corresponding classical particle. This behavior is to a large extent independent of the coupling strength, the temperature of the environment and also of the initial state.

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