Quantum-classical transition for an analog of double-slit experiment in complex collisions: Dynamical decoherence in quantum many-body systems
Abstract
We study coherent superpositions of clockwise and anti-clockwise rotating intermediate complexes with overlapping resonances formed in bimolecular chemical reactions. Disintegration of such complexes represents an analog of famous double-slit experiment. The time for disappearance of the interference fringes is estimated from heuristic arguments related to fingerprints of chaotic dynamics of a classical counterpart of the coherently rotating complex. Validity of this estimate is confirmed numerically for the H+D chemical reaction. Thus we demonstrate the quantum--classical transition in temporal behavior of highly excited quantum many-body systems in the absence of external noise and coupling to an environment.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0610091,
title = {Quantum-classical transition for an analog of double-slit experiment in complex collisions: Dynamical decoherence in quantum many-body systems},
author = {L. Benet and L. T. Chadderton and S. Yu. Kun and Wang Qi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0610091},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 ps color figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A