Noise induced energy excitation by a general environment

We analyze the effects that general environments, namely ohmic and non-ohmic, at zero and high temperature induce over a quantum Brownian particle. We state that the evolution of the system can be summarized in terms of two main environmental induced physical phenomena: decoherence and energy activa...

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Autores principales: Lombardo, F.C., Villar, P.I.
Formato: JOUR
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_03759601_v371_n3_p190_Lombardo
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Sumario:We analyze the effects that general environments, namely ohmic and non-ohmic, at zero and high temperature induce over a quantum Brownian particle. We state that the evolution of the system can be summarized in terms of two main environmental induced physical phenomena: decoherence and energy activation. In this Letter we show that the latter is a post-decoherence phenomenon. As the energy is an observable, the excitation process is a direct indication of the system-environment entanglement particularly useful at zero temperature. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.