Uncertainty Relation at Finite Temperature

Abstract

We use the quantum Brownian model to derive the uncertainty relation for a quantum open system. We examine how the fluctuations of a quantum system evolve after it is brought in contact with a heat bath at finite temperature. We study the decoherence and relaxation processes and use this example to examine 1) the relation between quantum and thermal fluctuations; and 2) the conditions when the two basic postulates of quantum statistical mechanics become valid.

12 pages, 1 figure (not included), umdpp 93-161, plain tex

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