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Decoherence of Fock States Leads to a Maximally Quantum State

Quantum Physics 2010-07-28 v1

Abstract

We consider the Wigner function evolution of Fock states n|n\rangle linearly coupled to a Markovian bath of oscillators. In the absence of environmental coupling, apparent ``quantumness'' increases with nn, but the presence of any environmental interaction causes high-nn states to lose their quantum features more rapidly than low-nn states. Using the negative volume of the Wigner function as a metric \cite{kenfack04}, we observe a time-dependent quantumness peak across the eigenstates.

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@article{arxiv.1007.4618,
  title  = {Decoherence of Fock States Leads to a Maximally Quantum State},
  author = {Andrew C. McClung and Tyler E. Keating and Adam T. C. Steege and Arjendu K. Pattanayak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.4618},
  year   = {2010}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures