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Control of decoherence in open quantum systems has become a topic of great interest due to the emergence of quantum technologies that depend on quantum coherent effects. In this work, we investigate the decoherence dynamics of systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Jitian Chen , Jakub Garwoła , Dvira Segal

A direct classical analog of the quantum dynamics of intrinsic decoherence in Hamiltonian systems, characterized by the time dependence of the linear entropy of the reduced density operator, is introduced. The similarities and differences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiangbin Gong , Paul Brumer

We revisit the problem of the decoherence and relaxation of a central spin coupled to a bath of conduction electrons. We consider both metallic and semiconducting baths to study the effect of a gap in the bath density of states (DOS) on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-16 Juliana Restrepo , R. Chitra , S. Camalet , Emilie Dupont

This article presents a comprehensive study of the impact of decoherence on the average correlation for pure quantum states. We explore two primary mechanisms of decoherence: phase damping and amplitude damping, each having distinct effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 A. M. Silva

Quantum correlations and coherence generated between two free spinless particles in the lattice, interacting with a common quantum phonon bath, are studied. The reduced density matrix is solved using the Markov approach. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Marco Nizama , Manuel O. Cáceres

We derive a non-Markovian master equation for a charged particle in a magnetic field coupled to a bath and study decoherence by analysing the temporal decay of the off-diagonal elements of the reduced density matrix in the position basis.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-31 Suraka Bhattacharjee , Koushik Mandal , Supurna Sinha

How quantum coherence influences thermodynamic behavior remains an open question in quantum thermodynamics. Here we investigate this relation within the pure dephasing framework, where a central qubit interacts with a finite Ising-like spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Marino P. Lenzarini , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto

We discuss the influence of a zero-temperature environment on a coherent quantum system. First, we calculate the reduced density operator of the system in the framework of the well-known, exactly solvable model of an oscillator coupled to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ratchov , F. Faure , F. W. J. Hekking

We study the effects of dissipation and decoherence induced on a harmonic oscillator by the coupling to a chaotic system with two degrees of freedom. Using the Feynman-Vernon approach and treating the chaotic system semiclassically we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. S. Bonanca , M. A. M. de Aguiar

We investigate the exact dynamics of the damped quantum harmonic oscillator under the (un)correlated initial conditions. The master equation is generalized to the cases of the arbitrary factorized state and/or Gaussian state. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Yang Gao , Qing Bin Tang , Ru Min Wang

A low temperature model system consisting of a central spin coupled to a spin-bath is studied to determine whether interaction among bath spins has an effect on central spin dynamics. In the absence of intra-environmental coupling,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Tessieri , J. Wilkie

We examine the decoherence of an asymmetric two-qubit system that is coupled via a tunable interaction term to a common bath or two individual baths of harmonic oscillators. The dissipative dynamics are evaluated using the Bloch-Redfield…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Markus J. Storcz , Frank Hellmann , Calin Hrelescu , Frank K. Wilhelm

We analyze collisional decoherence of atoms or molecules prepared in a coherent superposition of nondegenerate internal states at ultralow temperatures and placed in an ultracold buffer gas. Our analysis is applicable for an arbitrary bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. J. Hemming , R. V. Krems

We study decoherence induced on a two-level system coupled to a one-dimensional quantum spin chain. We consider the cases where the dynamics of the chain is determined by the Ising, XY, or Heisenberg exchange Hamiltonian. This model of…

We explore the effects of Markovian bath coupling and initial position-momentum correlations on the coherence and purity of Gaussian quantum states. Our analysis focuses on the roles these factors play in the dynamics of quantum coherence,…

We identify sufficient conditions on the structure of the interaction Hamiltonian between a two-level quantum system and a thermal bath which, without any external drive or coherent measurement, guarantee the generation of steady-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Giacomo Guarnieri , Michal Kolar , Radim Filip

A popular model of decoherence based on the linear coupling to harmonic oscillator heat baths is analized and shown to be inappropriate in the regime where decoherence dominates over energy dissipation, called pure decoherence regime. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-08 Robert Alicki

The conventional conception of decoherence relies on the interaction with an external set of degrees of freedom - the 'bath' - to which the system loses quantum information. But the role of the bath can be played too by any internal degrees…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-09-20 L. Rico-Pérez

We investigate system-environment correlations based on the exact dynamics of a qubit and its environment in the framework of pure decoherence (phase damping). We focus on the relation of decoherence and the build-up of system-reservoir…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 A. Pernice , W. T. Strunz

We investigate an explicit example of how spatial decoherence can lead to hydrodynamic behavior in the late-time, long-wavelength regime of open quantum systems. We focus on the case of a single non-relativistic quantum particle linearly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-17 Zhi-Li Zhou , Mauricio Hippert , Nicki Mullins , Jorge Noronha