Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2012-01-13
Phys.Rev.Lett. 108, 070403 (2012)
Physics
Quantum Physics
8 pages, 4 figures (including supplementary materials), final version appearing in Phys.Rev.Lett
Scientific paper
The notion that decoherence rapidly reduces a superposition state to an incoherent mixture implicitly adopts a special representation, namely, the representation of preferred (pointer) states (PS). For weak or strong system-environment coupling, PS is known to be the energy eigenstates of the system Hamiltonian or the eigenstates of the system-environment interaction Hamiltonian. Via a simple dynamical model that simulates a two-level system interacting with few other degrees of freedom as its environment, it is shown that even for intermediate system-environment coupling, approximate PS may still emerge from the coherent quantum dynamics of the whole system in the absence of any thermal averaging. The found PS can also continuously deform to expected limits for weak or strong system-environment coupling. Computational results are also qualitatively explained. The findings should be useful towards further understandings of decoherence and quantum thermalization processes.
Gong Jiangbin
He Lewei
Wang Wen-ge
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