A pair of interacting spins coupled to an environmental sea: dissipation and mutual decoherence

Details A pair of interacting spins coupled to an environmental sea: dissipation and mutual decoherence A pair of interacting spins coupled to an environmental sea: dissipation and mutual decoherence

1995-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9511020v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

4 pages, RevTex, 1 uuencoded postcript figure, submitted to PRL

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We consider the quantum dynamics of two spin-1/2 systems, each coupled to a bath of oscillators, so that a bath-mediated coupling is generated between the spins. We find that the interactions destroys any coherent motion of the 2 spins, even if the coupling of each spin to the bath is quite weak, unless the interaction is extremely small. This is because the dynamic mutual bias between the spins blocks any coherent transitions between nearly degenerate states. In many quantum measurement operations this means that decoherence effects will be much stonger during the actual measurement

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