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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL
Volume 51, Issue 14, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/aab0ad
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decoherence; semiclassical approximation; classical limit; interference
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Two manifestations of decoherence, called instantaneous and dynamical, are investigated. The former reflects the suppression of the interference between the components of the current state while the latter reflects that within the initial state. These types of decoherence are computed in the case of the Brownian motion and the harmonic and anharmonic oscillators within the semiclassical approximation. A remarkable phenomenon, namely the opposite orientation of the time arrow of the dynamical variables compared to that of the quantum fluctuations generates a double exponential time dependence of the dynamical decoherence in the presence of a harmonic force. For the weakly anharmonic oscillator the dynamical decoherence is found to depend in a singular way on the amount of the anharmonicity.
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