Decoherence at absolute zero

Details Decoherence at absolute zero Decoherence at absolute zero

2005-05-09

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0505056v1

Physics Letters A 228 (1997) 1-6

Physics

Quantum Physics

Published in Physics Letters A

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0375-9601(97)00098-4

We present an analytical study of the loss of quantum coherence at absolute zero. Our model consists of a harmonic oscillator coupled to an environment of harmonic oscillators at absolute zero. We find that for an Ohmic bath, the offdiagonal elements of the density matrix in the position representation decay as a power law in time at late times. This slow loss of coherence in the quantum domain is qualitatively different from the exponential decay observed in studies of high temperature environments.

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