Semiclassical Theory of Coherence and Decoherence

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2002-11-27

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0211184v2

Phys. Rev. A 68, 022112 (2003)

Physics

Quantum Physics

11 pages, 2 figures. Considerable restructuring of paper

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.68.022112

A general semiclassical approach to quantum systems with system-bath interactions is developed. We study system decoherence in detail using a coherent state semiclassical wavepacket method which avoids singularity issues arising in the usual Green's function approach. We discuss the general conditions under which it is approximately correct to discuss quantum decoherence in terms of a ``dephasing'' picture and we derive semiclassical expressions for the phase and phase distribution. Remarkably, an effective system wavefunction emerges whose norm measures the decoherence and is equivalent to a density matrix formulation.

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