Quantum coherent dissipation: A glimpse of the "cat"

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Segale, D ^a   Karavitis, M ^a   Fredj, E ^a   Apkarian, V A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM COHERENT DISSIPATION; SOLID HOST; SUPERPOSITION; VIBRATIONAL RELAXATION;

COHERENT LIGHT; FOUR WAVE MIXING; IMPURITIES; RELAXATION PROCESSES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18644377629     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1883634     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. W. H. Zurek, Rev. Mod. Phys. 75, 715 (2003).
2. A. J. Leggett, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 14, R415 (2002).
3. E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 807 (1935); E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 823 (1935); E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 844 (1935); for the English translation see, J. D. Trimmer, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 124, 323 (1980).
4. E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 807 (1935); E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 823 (1935); E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 844 (1935); for the English translation see, J. D. Trimmer, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 124, 323 (1980).
5. E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 807 (1935); E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 823 (1935); E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 844 (1935); for the English translation see, J. D. Trimmer, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 124, 323 (1980).
6. E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 807 (1935); E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 823 (1935); E. Schrödinger, Naturwiss. 0028-1042 23, 844 (1935); for the English translation see, J. D. Trimmer, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. 124, 323 (1980).
7. E. Schrödinger, Probability relations between separated systems., Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 32, 446 (1936).
8. S. Durr, T. Nonn, and G. Rempe, Nature (London) 395, 33, (1998).
9. H. Fidder and O. Tapia, Int. J. Quantum Chem. 97, 670 (2004).
10. R. Zadoyan, M. Sterling, and V. A. Apkarian, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 92, 1821 (1996).
11. M. Bargheer, P. Dietrich, K. Donovang, and N. Schwentner, J. Chem. Phys. 111, 8556 (1999).
12. M. Bargheer, M. Gühr, P. Dietrich, and N. Schwentner, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 4, 75 (2002).
13. J. Almy, J., K. Kizer, R. Zadoyan, and V. A. Apkarian, J. Phys. Chem. A 104, 3508 (2000).
14. Z. Bihary, M. Karavitis, and V. A. Apkarian, J. Chem. Phys. 120, 8144 (2004).
15. S. Mukamel, Principles of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy (Oxford University Press, New York, 1999).
16. D. Segale and V. A. Apkarian, manuscript in preparation.
17. For a general semiclassical treatment of decoherence in the two-slit experiment, in terms of Gaussian packets, see G. A. Fiete and E. J. Heller, Phys. Rev. A 68, 022112 (2003).
18. M. Ovchinnikov and V. A. Apkarian, J. Chem. Phys. 108, 2277 (1998).