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Contextuality, decoherence and quantum trajectories

Quantum Physics 2010-03-03 v2 Chemical Physics

Abstract

Here we analyze the relationship between quantum contextuality and decoherence in interference experiments with matter particles by means of a simple reduced quantum-trajectory model, which attempts to simulate the behavior of the projections of multi-dimensional, system-plus-environment Bohmian trajectories onto the subspace of the reduced system. This model allows us to understand the crossing of the subsystem trajectories as a combined effect of interference quenching and erasure of ``which-way'' information, which can be of utility to interpret decoherence effects in many-dimensional systems where full Bohmian treatments become prohibitive computationally.

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@article{arxiv.0803.2581,
  title  = {Contextuality, decoherence and quantum trajectories},
  author = {A. S. Sanz and F. Borondo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.2581},
  year   = {2010}
}

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15 pages, 3 figures

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