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A Phenomenon of Decoherence Induced by Chaotic Environment |
| YANG Yin-Biao, WANG Wen-Ge** |
| Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026 |
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YANG Yin-Biao, WANG Wen-Ge 2015 Chin. Phys. Lett. 32 030301 |
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Abstract By means of numerical simulation, we reveal a phenomenon which is due to decoherence induced by chaotic motion of a large environment. We study the possibility of replacing the environmental components of the state vector of the total system by some randomly-chosen vectors in the Hilbert space of the environment when decoherence has happened. It is shown that, in the future evolution, the reduced density matrices obtained in this way are quite close to those computed from the exact, continuous Schrödinger evolution of the total system. Similar results are also found in the case that the Hamiltonian is changed at the time of replacing components.
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Published: 26 February 2015
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03.65.Yz
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(Decoherence; open systems; quantum statistical methods)
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03.65.-w
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(Quantum mechanics)
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05.45.Mt
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(Quantum chaos; semiclassical methods)
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03.65.Ta
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(Foundations of quantum mechanics; measurement theory)
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