We study how the decoherence of macroscopic objects originates intrinsically from the relativistic effect. With the degree of freedom of the center of mass（CM） characterizing the collective quantum state of a macros...We study how the decoherence of macroscopic objects originates intrinsically from the relativistic effect. With the degree of freedom of the center of mass（CM） characterizing the collective quantum state of a macroscopic object（MO）,it is found that an MO consisting of N particles can decohere with a time scale of no more than p （√N）^-1. Here, the special relativity can induce the coupling of the collective motion mode and the relative motion modes in an order of 1/c^2, which intrinsically results in the above minimum decoherence.展开更多
We revisit the quantum decoherence problem of the center of mass motion of a macroscopic object, which is modelled as a one-dimensional atom chain. Induced by the coupling of the center of mass （C.M） motion with the...We revisit the quantum decoherence problem of the center of mass motion of a macroscopic object, which is modelled as a one-dimensional atom chain. Induced by the coupling of the center of mass （C.M） motion with the inner degrees of freedom, this inner-environment-induced decoherence is reflected by the localization of the C.M wave packet. We show that, the C.M motion is coupled to the inner states only when the chain has interaction with the external potential. This result provides a realistic mechanism for the analysis of the inner-environment-induced localization of a macroscopic object.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11421063 and 11534002)the National Key Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2014CB921403)+1 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2016YFA0301201)and the NSAF(Grant No.U1530401)
文摘We study how the decoherence of macroscopic objects originates intrinsically from the relativistic effect. With the degree of freedom of the center of mass（CM） characterizing the collective quantum state of a macroscopic object（MO）,it is found that an MO consisting of N particles can decohere with a time scale of no more than p （√N）^-1. Here, the special relativity can induce the coupling of the collective motion mode and the relative motion modes in an order of 1/c^2, which intrinsically results in the above minimum decoherence.
基金The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 10547106, 90203018, 10474104, and 60433050, and the National Fundamental Research Program of China under Grant Nos. 2001CB309310 and 2005CB724508 L. Zheng thanks sincerely C.P. Sun and P. Zhang for their helpful discussions.
文摘We revisit the quantum decoherence problem of the center of mass motion of a macroscopic object, which is modelled as a one-dimensional atom chain. Induced by the coupling of the center of mass （C.M） motion with the inner degrees of freedom, this inner-environment-induced decoherence is reflected by the localization of the C.M wave packet. We show that, the C.M motion is coupled to the inner states only when the chain has interaction with the external potential. This result provides a realistic mechanism for the analysis of the inner-environment-induced localization of a macroscopic object.
