{
  "id": "quant-ph/0502056",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2005-02-09T19:34:04.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-02-09T19:34:04.000Z",
  "title": "Decoherence Effects in Reactive Scattering",
  "authors": [
    "Heekyung Han",
    "Paul Brumer"
  ],
  "comment": "25 pages, 6 figures, to be published in J. Chem. Phys",
  "doi": "10.1063/1.1879912",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Decoherence effects on quantum and classical dynamics in reactive scattering are examined using a Caldeira-Leggett type model. Through a study of dynamics of the collinear H+H2 reaction and the transmission over simple one-dimensional barrier potentials, we show that decoherence leads to improved agreement between quantum and classical reaction and transmission probabilities, primarily by increasing the energy dispersion in a well defined way. Increased potential nonlinearity is seen to require larger decoherence in order to attain comparable quantum-classical agreement.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2005-02-09T19:34:04.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "decoherence effects",
      "reactive scattering",
      "simple one-dimensional barrier potentials",
      "caldeira-leggett type model",
      "increased potential nonlinearity"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 25,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}