{
  "id": "quant-ph/0606222",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2006-06-27T16:19:24.000Z",
  "updated": "2006-06-27T16:19:24.000Z",
  "title": "Quantum decoherence of the damped harmonic oscillator",
  "authors": [
    "A. Isar"
  ],
  "comment": "Talk at the XI International Conference on Quantum Optics (ICQO'2006), May 2006, Minsk (Belarus), 9 pages",
  "journal": "Optics and Spectroscopy 103, 252 (2007)",
  "doi": "10.1134/S0030400X07080140",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "In the framework of the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems, we determine the degree of quantum decoherence of a harmonic oscillator interacting with a thermal bath. It is found that the system manifests a quantum decoherence which is more and more significant in time. We also calculate the decoherence time and show that it has the same scale as the time after which thermal fluctuations become comparable with quantum fluctuations.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2006-06-27T16:19:24.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum decoherence",
      "damped harmonic oscillator",
      "open quantum systems",
      "thermal fluctuations",
      "lindblad theory"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper",
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 9,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}