Abstract
A single-electron two-path interference (Young) experiment is considered theoretically. The decoherence of an electron wave packet due to the which path trace left in a conducting (metallic) plate placed under the electron trajectories is calculated using the many-body quantum description of the electron gas reservoir.
- Received 9 November 2005
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.73.155109
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