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Allan Tameshtit

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arXiv2025

Emergence of Symmetry in a System of Distinguishable but Identical Particles

Instead of the conventional construction of symmetric and antisymmetric states by abruptly projecting with the symmetrizer or antisymmetrizer, this paper investigates rapid but continuous symmetrization via environment-induced decoherence. Density operators are transformed to a symmetric observable via a semigroup map obtained from an interacting Hamiltonian. Likewise, a completely positive dynamical map transforms a completely asymmetric state to either a symmetric or antisymmetric state. The theory is applied to analyze a collision between two identical particles having arbitrary spin and negligible spin interactions. We discuss extensions to larger domains via dynamical maps that are not completely positive.

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arXiv2024

Variable Mass and the Noisy Feynman Propagator in Scalar Fields

We utilize a mass independent Klein-Gordon equation that is first order in a variable that plays the role of time, the approach taken in parametric time formulations. Using concepts from semigroup evolution, we examine the sign of a noisy Feynman propagator in a quantum field theory, namely, scalar electrodynamics.

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arXiv2023

Sign of the Feynman Propagator and Irreversibility

For the interacting Feynman propagator $ Δ_{F,int}(x,y) $ of scalar electrodynamics, we show that the sign property, $ \operatorname{Re} iΔ_{F,int} \geq 0 $, hinges on the reversibility of time evolution. In contrast, $ \operatorname{Im} iΔ_{F,int} $ is indeterminate. When we switch to reduced dynamics under the weak coupling approximation, the positive semidefinite sign of $ \operatorname{Re} iΔ_{F,int} $ is generally lost, unless we impose severe restrictions on the Kraus operators that govern time evolution. With another approximation, the rotating wave approximation, we may recover the sign by restricting the test functions to exponentials under certain conditions.

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arXiv2017

Coherent Processing of a Qubit Using One Squeezed State

We use a single squeezed state to represent a qubit, which can be coherently processed in a deconvolution picture (DP) in the presence of noise. We avail ourselves of the fact that when evolution is governed by a quadratic dissipative equation, there exists a basis of squeezed states that evolves to another basis of such states in the DP. An operator acts as an impurity filter, restoring the coherence lost from the inexorable interactions of the qubit with its surroundings.

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arXiv2013

Fluctuation-Dissipation Inequality for Quadratic Open Systems

For open systems derived from quadratic total Hamiltonians, we derive a dynamic fluctuation-dissipation (FD) inequality valid for any total initial state and without regard to the sign of the dissipation. With the added constraint that this state be factorized with the reservoir in thermal equilibrium, an uncertainty relation arises naturally from the FD inequality that can be stronger than one common form of the uncertainty principle. We discuss some of the properties of the uncertainty relation relevant to decoherence.

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arXiv2013

Orbital instability and the loss of quantum coherence

We compare quantum decoherence in generic regular and chaotic systems that interact with a thermal reservoir via a dipole coupling. Using a time-dependent, self-consistent approximation in the spirit of Hartree, we derive in the high temperature limit an expression for the off-diagonal elements of the system density operator that initially corresponds to a coherent superposition of two adjacent wave packets. We relate the decoherence rate to the Lyapunov exponent in the Ehrenfest regime. In this regime, the greater the instability of the system the faster the loss of coherence occurs.

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arXiv2013

On the standard quantum Brownian equation and an associated class of non-autonomous master equations

It is shown that the standard quantum Brownian equation (QBE) can violate positivity not only past the thermal correlation time, but at arbitrarily long times at high system frequencies. In an effort to improve the standard QBE, exact operator solutions are provided for a class of non-autonomous master equations. These exact solutions are used to derive sufficient positivity conditions for the coefficients of the master equations.

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arXiv2012

Positive Quantum Brownian Evolution

Using the independent oscillator model with an arbitrary system potential, we derive a quantum Brownian equation assuming a correlated total initial state. Although not of Lindblad form, the equation preserves positivity of the density operator on a restricted set of initial states.

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arXiv2012

Zero-point energies, the uncertainty principle and positivity of the quantum Brownian density operator

High temperature and white noise approximations are frequently invoked when deriving the quantum Brownian equation for an oscillator. Even if this white noise approximation is avoided, it is shown that if the zero point energies of the environment are neglected, as they often are, the resultant equation will violate not only the basic tenet of quantum mechanics that requires the density operator to be positive, but also the uncertainty principle. When the zero-point energies are included, asymptotic results describing the evolution of the oscillator are obtained that preserve positivity and, therefore, the uncertainty principle.

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arXiv2005

The Inner Limit of Quantum Brownian Evolution and its Relevance to Positivity

The conventional quantum Brownian propagator, which describes the evolution of a system of interest bilinearly coupled to and initially uncorrelated with a reservoir, does not preserve positivity of density operators, prompting workers to modify the propagator by the ad hoc addition of time-independent terms to the corresponding generator. We show that no such terms need be added to the generator to preserve positivity provided one accounts for the rapid entanglement of the system of interest and the reservoir on a time scale too short for the conventional propagator to be valid.

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