Quantum simulation of decoherence in optical waveguide lattices
Quantum Physics
2015-06-17 v1
Abstract
We suggest that propagation of nonclassical light in lattices of optical waveguides can provide a laboratory tool to simulate quantum decoherence phenomena with high non-Markovian features. As examples, we study decoherence of optical Schr\"{o}dinger cats in a lattice that mimics a dissipative quantum harmonic oscillator coupled to a quantum bath, showing fractional decoherence in the strong coupling regime, and Bloch oscillations of optical Schr\"{o}dinger cats, where damped revivals of the coherence can be observed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1310.7239,
title = {Quantum simulation of decoherence in optical waveguide lattices},
author = {Stefano Longhi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7239},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures (to appear in Optics Letters)