Master-Equations for the Study of Decoherence

2003/01/31 by Bassano Vacchini, B. Vacchini · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10773-005-7077-4

published as Int. J. Theor. Phys. 44 (2005) 1011-1021 · 10 pages, latex, no figures, to appear in Int. J. Theor. Phys

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Abstract

Different structures of master-equation used for the description of decoherence of a microsystem interacting through collisions with a surrounding environment are considered and compared. These results are connected to the general expression of the generator of a quantum dynamical semigroup in presence of translation invariance recently found by Holevo.

Citations

• Destruction of quantum coherence through emission of bremsstrahlung

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