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How the Unruh effect affects transition between classical and quantum decoherences

Quantum Physics 2015-06-04 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate how the Unruh effect affects the transition between classical and quantum decoherences for a general class of initial states and find that: (i)(i) The quantum decoherence exists while λtλt~\lambda t\leq\lambda \widetilde{t} (the transition time) and the classical one can also affect the system's evolution while λtλt~\lambda t\geq\lambda\widetilde{t} for both the bit and phase-bit flips, which are different from the cases in inertial frame; (ii)(ii) The classical correlations will be different constants corresponding to different Unruh temperature and the quantum decoherence still dominates the evolution of system as λtλt~\lambda t\geq\lambda\widetilde{t} for the phase flip; And (iii)(iii) as the Unruh temperature increases, the λt~\lambda\widetilde{t}, compared with that in inertial frame, will be bigger for phase flip but smaller for bit flip. However, the λt~\lambda\widetilde{t} does not change no matter what the Unruh effect is for phase-bit flip.

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@article{arxiv.1203.6141,
  title  = {How the Unruh effect affects transition between classical and quantum decoherences},
  author = {Zehua Tian and Jiliang Jing},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.6141},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, 6 figures

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