TY - JOUR
T1 - A Numerical Study of Quantum Decoherence
AU - Riccardo Adami & Claudia Negulescu
JO - Communications in Computational Physics
VL - 1
SP - 85
EP - 108
PY - 2012
DA - 2012/12
SN - 12
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.011010.010611a
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/7285.html
KW - 
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">The present paper provides a numerical investigation of the decoherence effect induced on a quantum heavy particle by the scattering with a light one. The time dependent two-particle Schrödinger equation is solved by means of a time-splitting method. The damping undergone by the non-diagonal terms of the heavy particle density matrix is estimated numerically, as well as the error in the Joos-Zeh approximation formula.&nbsp;</p>