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Effect of dissipation on quantum coherence
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The effect of dissipation on a macroscopic superposition of quantum states is studied with use of a Markovian master-equation approach. It is shown that a superposition of two states is reduced to a mixture at a rate proportional to the separation between the two states. This underlines the difficulty of observing a superposition of macroscopic quantum states in practice.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Walls, D. F., & Milburn, G. J.
- Venue
- Physical Review A
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1985-04-01
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 2403-2408
- ISSN
- 0556-2791 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2059680847
- Cited by
- 430
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 5.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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