Decoherence and Matter Wave Interferometry

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2006-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602052v2

Int. J. Mod. Phys. B, 22 (2008) 981-990

Physics

Quantum Physics

Sufficiently revised version, to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. B

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0217979208039113

A two-slit interference of a massive particle in the presence of environment induced decoherence is theoretically analyzed using a fully quantum mechanical calculation. The Markovian Master equation, derived from coupling the particle to a harmonic-oscillator heat bath, is used to obtain exact solutions which show the existence of an interference. Interestingly, decoherence does not affect the pattern, but only leads to a reduction in the fringe visibility.

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