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Decoherence, Perturbations and Symmetry in Lindblad Dynamics -- Implications for Diffractive Dissociation

Quantum Physics 2026-05-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We extend a perturbative Dyson-type treatment and discrete-symmetry constraints from the Schr\"{o}dinger and von Neumann equations to a dephasing Lindblad framework. This work develops further the odd-symmetric formulation involving dual temporal conditions from general dynamical considerations to specific tools of quantum mechanics. Applying the resulting scaling relations to published single- and double-diffractive data in pppp and ppˉp\bar{p} collisions (ISR, UA4, UA5, CDF, D0, ALICE, and E710), we show that single-diffraction cross sections are well described by a three-parameter fit with a relative RMS deviation of 4%\sim 4\%, substantially improving upon conventional approximations that neglect decoherence. The extracted decoherence factor is consistently ϕ0.89\phi \approx 0.89, in agreement across SD, DD, and E710-based (direct) estimates, and is naturally interpreted as ϕ=1\phi =1 for CP-invariant dephasing but ϕ<1\phi <1 for CPT-invariant dephasing, favouring the latter.

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@article{arxiv.2602.13922,
  title  = {Decoherence, Perturbations and Symmetry in Lindblad Dynamics -- Implications for Diffractive Dissociation},
  author = {A. Y. Klimenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13922},
  year   = {2026}
}

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31 pages, 3 figures

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