Decoherence as phase diffusion

Pérola Milman; Yvan Castin; Luiz Davidovich

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.61.063803

Decoherence as phase diffusion

Pérola Milman, Yvan Castin, and Luiz Davidovich

Phys. Rev. A 61, 063803 – Published 8 May 2000

Abstract

We show that the decoherence of a superposition of two coherent states of the electromagnetic field in a cavity may be interpreted as a phase-diffusion process.

Received 5 October 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.61.063803

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Pérola Milman¹, Yvan Castin², and Luiz Davidovich¹

¹Instituto de Física, UFRJ, Caixa Postal 68528, 21945-970 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
²Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France

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Decoherence as phase diffusion

Pérola Milman, Yvan Castin, and Luiz Davidovich

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