Einselection from incompatible decoherence channels

Abstract

Decoherence of quantum systems from entanglement with an unmonitored environment is to date the most compelling explanation of the emergence of a classical picture from a quantum world. While it is well understood for a single Lindblad operator, the role in the einselection process of a complex system-environment interaction remains to be clarified. In this paper, we analyze an open quantum dynamics inspired by CQED experiments with two non-commuting Lindblad operators modeling decoherence in the number basis and dissipative decoherence in the coherent state basis. We study and solve exactly the problem using quantum trajectories and phase-space techniques. The einselection optimization problem, which we consider to be about finding states minimizing the variation of some entanglement witness at a given energy, is studied numerically. We show that Fock states remain the most robust states to decoherence up to a critical coupling.

arXiv comment16 pages, 12 figures

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