Decoherence and fluctuations in quantum interference experiments
Quantum Physics
2010-01-31 v1
Abstract
We analyze the notion of quantum coherence in an interference experiment. We let the phase shifts fluctuate according to a given statistical distribution and introduce a decoherence parameter, defined in terms of a generalized visibility of the interference pattern. One might naively expect that a particle ensemble suffers a greater loss of quantum coherence by interacting with an increasingly randomized distribution of shifts. As we shall see, this is not always true.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0106027,
title = {Decoherence and fluctuations in quantum interference experiments},
author = {A. Mariano and P. Facchi and S. Pascazio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0106027},
year = {2010}
}
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9 pages, 3 figures