Classical Diffusion of a quantum particle in a noisy environment

Details Classical Diffusion of a quantum particle in a noisy environment Classical Diffusion of a quantum particle in a noisy environment

2009-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0890v1

Phys. Rev. E 79, 050105(R) (2009)

Physics

Quantum Physics

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We study the spreading of a quantum-mechanical wavepacket in a one-dimensional tight-binding model with a noisy potential, and analyze the emergence of classical diffusion from the quantum dynamics due to decoherence. We consider a finite correlation time of the noisy environment, and treat the system by utilizing the separation of fast (dephasing) and slow (diffusion) processes. We show that classical diffusive behavior emerges at long times, and we calculate analytically the dependence of the classical diffusion coefficient on the noise magnitude and correlation time. This method provides a general solution to this problem for arbitrary conditions of the noisy environment. The results are relevant to a large variety of physical systems, from electronic transport in solid state physics, to light transmission in optical devices, diffusion of excitons, and quantum computation.

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