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Time Evolution of tunneling and decoherence: soluble model

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Decoherence effects associated to the damping of a tunneling two-level system are shown to dominate the tunneling probability at short times in strong coupling regimes in the context of a soluble model. A general decomposition of tunneling rates in dissipative and unitary parts is implemented. Master equation treatments fail to describe the model system correctly when more than a single relaxation time is involved.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0104132,
  title  = {Time Evolution of tunneling and decoherence: soluble model},
  author = {A. N. Salgueiro and A. F. de R. de Toledo Piza and J. G. Peixoto de Faria},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0104132},
  year   = {2009}
}