Decoherence and entanglement in a bosonic Josephson junction: Bose-enhanced quantum-Zeno control of phase-diffusion

Abstract

We study the effect of decoherence on dynamical phase diffusion in the two-site Bose-Hubbard model. Starting with an odd parity excited coherent state, the initial loss of single particle coherence varies from small bound oscillations in the Rabi regime, through hyperbolic depletion in the Josephson regime, to a Gaussian decay in the Fock regime. The inclusion of local-site noise, measuring the relative number difference between the modes, is shown to enhance phase-diffusion. In comparison, site-indiscriminate noise measuring the population imbalance between the two quasi-momentum modes, slows down the loss of single-particle coherence. Decoherence thus either enhances or suppresses phase-diffusion, depending on the details of system-bath coupling and the overlap of decoherence pointer states with collisional-entanglement pointer states. The deceleration of phase-diffusion due to the coupling with the environment may be viewed as a many-body quantum-Zeno effect. The extended effective decay times in the presence of projective measurement, are further enhanced with increasing number of particles $N$, by a bosonic factor of $\sqrt{N}$ in the Fock regime and $N/\log N$ in the Josephson regime.

13 pages, 12 figures

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