Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
1995-06-19
Phys.Rev. E53 (1996) 4711-4728
Physics
Quantum Physics
34 pages, LATEX, revised version to avoid LATEX errors
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.53.4711
We consider the decoherence of phase space histories in a class of quantum Brownian motion models, consisting of a particle moving in a potential $V(x)$ in interaction with a heat bath at temperature $T$ and dissipation gamma, in the Markovian regime. The evolution of the density operator for this open system is thus described by a non-unitary master equation. The phase space histories of the system are described by a class of quasiprojectors. Generalizing earlier results of Hagedorn and Omn\`es, we show that a phase space projector onto a phase space cell $\Gamma$ is approximately evolved under the master equation into another phase space projector onto the classical dissipative evolution of $\Gamma$, and with a certain amount of degradation due to the noise produced by the environment. We thus show that histories of phase space samplings approximately decohere, and that the probabilities for these histories are peaked about classical dissipative evolution, with a width of peaking depending on the size of the noise.
Anastopoulos Charis
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