WAVE-PACKET EVOLUTION IN THE DAMPED OSCILLATOR

被引:126
作者
PHOENIX, SJD
机构
[1] British Telecom Research Laboratories, Martlesham Heath
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1990年 / 41卷 / 09期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.41.5132
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We demonstrate that, for a simple model of the damped oscillator, both the wave packet in the position representation and oscillator expectation values are insensitive to the rapid decay of off-diagonal coherences. This rapid decay is, however, seen in the von Neumann entropy for the oscillator and the wave packet in the number representation. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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页码:5132 / 5138
页数:7
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