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 linearly coupled to a Markovian bath of oscillators. In the absence of environmental coupling, apparent ``quantumness'' increases with , but the presence of any environmental interaction causes high- states to lose their quantum features more rapidly than low- states. Using the negative volume of the Wigner function as a metric \cite{kenfack04}, we observe a time-dependent quantumness peak across the eigenstates.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures