Decoherence, Entanglement and Irreversibility in Quantum Dynamical Systems with Few Degrees of Freedom

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2008-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/0806.0987v2

Advances in Physics 58, vol. 2, 67 (2009)

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Quantum Physics

Final version, to appear in Advances in Physics

Scientific paper

10.1080/00018730902831009

This review summarizes and amplifies on recent investigations of coupled quantum dynamical systems in the short wavelength limit. We formulate and attempt to answer three fundamental questions: (i) What drives a dynamical quantum system to behave classically ? (ii) What determines the rate at which two coupled quantum--mechanical systems become entangled ? (iii) How does irreversibility occur in quantum systems with few degrees of freedom ? We embed these three questions in the broader context of the quantum--classical correspondence, which motivates the use of short--wavelength approximations to quantum mechanics such as the trajectory-based semiclassical methods and random matrix theory. Doing so, we propose a novel investigative procedure towards decoherence and the emergence of classicality out of quantumness in dynamical systems coupled to external degrees of freedom. We reproduce known results derived using master equation or Lindblad approaches but also generate novel ones. In particular we show how local exponential instability also affects the temporal evolution of quantum chaotic dynamical systems. We extensively rely on numerical experiments to illustrate our findings and briefly comment on possible extensions to more complex problems involving environments with $n \gg 1$ interacting dynamical systems, going beyond the uncoupled harmonic oscillator model of Caldeira and Leggett.

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