Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 47, Number 3, August I 1999
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Page(s) | 279 - 284 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1999-00386-y | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Selection of squeezed states via decoherence
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Received:
25
January
1999
Accepted:
3
June
1999
In the framework of Lindblad theory for open quantum systems, we calculate the entropy of a damped quantum harmonic oscillator which is initially in a quasi-free state. The maximally predictable states are identified as those states producing the minimum entropy increase after a long enough time. In general, the states with a squeezing parameter depending on the environment's diffusion coefficients and friction constant are singled out, but if the friction constant is much smaller than the oscillator's frequency, coherent states (or thermalized coherent states) are obtained as the preferred classical states.
PACS: 03.65.Bz – Foundations, theory of measurement, miscellaneous theories (including Aharonov-Bohm effect, Bell inequalities, Berry's phase) / 05.30.-d – Quantum statistical mechanics / 05.40.-a – Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion
© EDP Sciences, 1999
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