On the Direction of Decoherence in the Morse Potential

Author: Földi Péter   Benedict Mihály G.   Czirják Attila  

Publisher: Akademiai Kiado

ISSN: 1219-7580

Source: Acta Physica Hungarica A, Vol.20, Iss.1-2, 2004-01, pp. : 25-28

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Abstract

The Markovian master equation that describes the dynamics of the anharmonic Morse potential under the influence of a thermal environment is analogous to the amplitude damping of the harmonic oscillator, but the result is qualitatively different. We show that the environment induced decoherence drives a wave packet into a mixed state that is well approximated by the time average of the initial state over one oscillation period.