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Effect of transport coefficients on the time-dependence of density matrix

Condensed Matter 2019-08-17 v1

Abstract

For Lindblad's master equation of open quantum systems with a general quadratic form of the Hamiltonian, the propagator of the density matrix is analytically calculated by using path integral techniques. The time-dependent density matrix is applied to nuclear barrier penetration in heavy ion collisions with inverted oscillator and double-well potentials. The quantum mechanical decoherence of pairs of phase space histories in the propagator is studied and shown that the decoherence depends crucially on the transport coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9911015,
  title  = {Effect of transport coefficients on the time-dependence of density matrix},
  author = {Yu. V. Palchikov and G. G. Adamian and N. V. Antonenko and W. Scheid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9911015},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages, 4 figures, submitted to J.Phys.A