Decoherence Strength of Multiple Non-Markovian Environments
Quantum Physics
2012-05-24 v3
Abstract
It is known that one can characterize the decoherence strength of a Markovian environment by the product of its temperature and induced damping, and order the decoherence strength of multiple environments by this quantity. We show that for non-Markovian environments in the weak coupling regime there also exists a natural (albeit partial) ordering of environment-induced irreversibility within a perturbative treatment. This measure can be applied to both low-temperature and non-equilibrium environments.
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@article{arxiv.1011.3286,
title = {Decoherence Strength of Multiple Non-Markovian Environments},
author = {C. H. Fleming and B. L. Hu and Albert Roura},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3286},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
6 pages, 1 figure, v3 included figure, appendix, and clarification of results