Influence of a Mesoscopic Bath on Quantum Coherence

Details Influence of a Mesoscopic Bath on Quantum Coherence Influence of a Mesoscopic Bath on Quantum Coherence

2004-09-23

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0409630v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.72.045338

For a quantum double well system interacting with a mesoscopic bath, it is shown that a single particle in the bath is sufficient to substantially reduce tunneling between the two wells. This is demonstrated by considering an ammonia molecule in the center of a ring; in addition to halving the maser line frequency, there is an increase in intensity by four orders of magnitude. The tunneling varies non-monotonically with the number N of electrons in the ring, reflecting the changing electronic correlations. Although the tunneling is reduced for small N, it turns around and grows to its free value for large N. This is shown to not violate Anderson's orthogonality theorem. Experimental implementations are discussed.

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