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quant-ph2016★ 36 cited
Decoherence of rotational degrees of freedom
Changchun Zhong, F. Robicheaux
The mechanism of decoherence for a quantum system with rotational degrees of freedom is studied. From a simple model of elastic scattering, we show that the non-diagonal density ma…
quant-ph2016★ 229 cited
Torsional optomechanics of a levitated nonspherical nanoparticle
Thai M. Hoang, Yue Ma, Jonghoon Ahn +4
An optically levitated nanoparticle in vacuum is a paradigm optomechanical system for sensing and studying macroscopic quantum mechanics. While its center-of-mass motion has been i…