{
  "id": "quant-ph/0502087",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2005-02-14T19:40:22.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-02-14T19:40:22.000Z",
  "title": "Decoherence time in self-induced decoherence",
  "authors": [
    "Mario Castagnino",
    "Olimpia Lombardi"
  ],
  "comment": "11 pages",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.72.012102",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "A general method for obtaining the decoherence time in self-induced decoherence is presented. In particular, it is shown that such a time can be computed from the poles of the resolvent or of the initial conditions in the complex extension of the Hamiltonian's spectrum. Several decoherence times are estimated: $10^{-13}-$ $10^{-15}s$ for microscopic systems, and $10^{-37}-10^{-39}s$ for macroscopic bodies. For the particular case of a thermal bath, our results agree with those obtained by the einselection (environment-induced decoherence) approach.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2005-02-14T19:40:22.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "decoherence time",
      "self-induced decoherence",
      "results agree",
      "general method",
      "thermal bath"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. A"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 11,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}