{
  "id": "1407.4204",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2014-07-16T06:31:35.000Z",
  "updated": "2014-07-16T06:31:35.000Z",
  "title": "Internal Decoherence of a Gaussian Wave Packet in a Harmonic Potential",
  "authors": [
    "A. Cidrim",
    "F. E. A. dos Santos",
    "A. O. Caldeira"
  ],
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We have studied the quantum dissipative problem of a Gaussian wave packet under the influence of a harmonic potential. A phenomenological approach to dissipation is adopted in the light of the well-known model in which the environment is composed of a bath of non-interacting harmonic oscillators. As one of the effects of the coupling to the bath is the evolution of an initially pure wave packet into a statistical mixture, we estimate the characteristic time elapsed for this to occur for different regimes of temperature, damping, and also different initial states.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2014-07-16T06:31:35.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.65.Yz",
      "05.40.Jc"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "gaussian wave packet",
      "harmonic potential",
      "internal decoherence",
      "initially pure wave packet",
      "characteristic time"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.90.052102",
      "journal": "Physical Review A",
      "year": 2014,
      "month": "Nov",
      "volume": 90,
      "number": 5,
      "pages": "052102"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2014PhRvA..90e2102C"
    }
  }
}