{ "id": "quant-ph/0001086", "version": "v1", "published": "2000-01-24T14:19:17.000Z", "updated": "2000-01-24T14:19:17.000Z", "title": "Decoherence in QED at finite temperature", "authors": [ "Z. Haba" ], "comment": "Latex, 10 pages", "doi": "10.1088/0305-4470/33/26/304", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "We consider a wave packet of a charged particle passing through a cavity filled with photons at temperature T and investigate its localization and interference properties. It is shown that the wave packet becomes localized and the interference disappears with an exponential speed after a sufficiently long path through the cavity.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2000-01-24T14:19:17.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "finite temperature", "decoherence", "wave packet", "interference properties", "interference disappears" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "journal": "Journal of Physics A Mathematical General", "year": 2000, "month": "Jul", "volume": 33, "number": 26, "pages": 4767 }, "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2000JPhA...33.4767H" } } }