Decoherence factor as a convolution: an interplay between a Gaussian and an exponential coherence loss
arXiv:2110.09463 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ac9fe8
Abstract
This paper identifies and investigates nature of the transition between Gaussian and exponential forms of decoherence. We show that the decoherence factor (that controls the time dependence of the suppression of the off-diagonal terms when the density matrix is expressed in the pointer basis representation) can be described by the convolution of Gaussian and exponential functions, their contributions modulated by the strength of the system-environment interaction. In the strong and weak coupling limits, decoherence reduces to the familiar Gaussian and exponential forms, respectively. The mechanism is demonstrated with two paradigmatic examples of decoherence -- a spin-bath model and the quantum Brownian motion.
arXiv commentfinal version; to appear in New Journal of Physics
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