arXiv · quant-ph/0601025
Decoherence and localization in tunneling process under influence of one external degree of freedom
Abstract
We investigate numerically the tunneling effect under influence of another particle in a double well system. Such influence from only one degree of freedom makes decoherence and quantum-classical transition, i.e., suppression of the tunneling effect. The decoherence happens even for cases that the influence is from a particle of very small mass, and it has virtually no effect in the corresponding classical dynamics. There are cases similar to dynamical localization that the suppressed tunneling rate is several times smaller than the classical counterpart. This result is relevant for understanding quantitatively the dynamical process of decoherence and quantum to classical transition.
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Quanlin Jie, Bambi Hu, Guangjong Dong. 2006-01-04. Decoherence and localization in tunneling process under influence of one external degree of freedom. https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0601025
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