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Decoherence time in self-induced decoherence
Mario Castagnino, Olimpia Lombardi
arXiv: quant-ph/0502087v1 - DOI (quant-ph)
11 pages
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Abstract: A general method for obtaining the decoherence time in self-induced decoherence is presented. In particular, it is shown that such a time can be computed from the poles of the resolvent or of the initial conditions in the complex extension of the Hamiltonian's spectrum. Several decoherence times are estimated: $10^{-13}-$ $10^{-15}s$ for microscopic systems, and $10^{-37}-10^{-39}s$ for macroscopic bodies. For the particular case of a thermal bath, our results agree with those obtained by the einselection (environment-induced decoherence) approach.
Submitted to arXiv on 14 Feb. 2005