Decoherence, the Density Matrix, the Thermal State and the Classical World

Gaveau, Bernard; Schulman, Lawrence S.

doi:10.1007/s10955-017-1901-0

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Decoherence, the Density Matrix, the Thermal State and the Classical World

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Schulman, Lawrence S.
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Max Planck Society;

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Gaveau, B., & Schulman, L. S. (2017). Decoherence, the Density Matrix, the Thermal State and the Classical World. Journal of Statistical Physics, 169(5), 889-901. doi:10.1007/s10955-017-1901-0.

引用: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0000-756E-2

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Decoherence has been the basis for understanding the emergence of the classical world from its quantum underpinnings. Unfortunately the calculations establishing decoherence overshoot and, based on assumptions that break down, predict that with the passage of time the off-diagonal elements of the density matrix become arbitrarily small. It has been recognized by some authors that the thermal state, assumed to hold for systems in equilibrium, places a bound on off diagonal terms. In this article we establish-preserving the conservation of energy, as is not the case for previous work-that indeed the thermal state is an attractor under scattering. Moreover, the bound on the off-diagonal terms present in the thermal state does not contradict everyday experience.