2024/02/05 by Gabriela Barenboim, A. M. Gago, Barenboim, Gabriela +1
Computer Science · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Quantum Information and Cryptography
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2402.03438
openalex publication_date 2024/02/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
Physical systems in real life are inextricably linked to their surroundings and never completely separated from them. Truly closed systems do not exist. The phenomenon of decoherence, which is brought about by the interaction with the environment, removes the relative phase of quantum states in superposition and makes them incoherent. In neutrino physics, decoherence, although extensively studied has only been analyzed thus far, exclusively in terms of its dissipative characteristics. While it is true that dissipation, or the exponential suppression, eventually is the main observable effect, the exchange of energy between the medium and the system, is an important factor that has been overlooked up until now. In this work, we introduce this term and analyze its consequences.