{ "id": "quant-ph/9802044", "version": "v1", "published": "1998-02-16T21:36:02.000Z", "updated": "1998-02-16T21:36:02.000Z", "title": "Classical states via decoherence", "authors": [ "Gh. -S. Paraoanu", "H. Scutaru" ], "comment": "6 pages, LaTeX", "journal": "Phys.Lett. A238 (1998) 219", "doi": "10.1016/S0375-9601(97)00925-0", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "The initial states which minimize the predictability loss for a damped harmonic oscillator are identified as quasi-free states with a symmetry dictated by the environment's diffusion coefficients. For an isotropic diffusion in phase space, coherent states (or mixtures of coherent states) are selected as the most stable ones.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "1998-02-16T21:36:02.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "classical states", "decoherence", "coherent states", "environments diffusion coefficients", "quasi-free states" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "LaTeX", "pages": 6, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 467221 } } }