Decoherence in the Dirac equation

Details Decoherence in the Dirac equation Decoherence in the Dirac equation

1998-04-09

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9804023v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

8 pages, plain TeX, 6 PostScript figures included with epsf.tex (ignore the under/overfull \vbox error messages)

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A Dirac particle is represented by a unitarily evolving state vector in a Hilbert space which factors as $H_{spin} \otimes H_{position}$. Motivated by the similarity to simple models of decoherence consisting of a two state system coupled to an environment, we investigate the occurence of decoherence in the Dirac equation upon tracing over position. We conclude that the physics of this mathematically exact model for decoherence is closely related to Zitterbewegung.

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