Quantum trajectories for Brownian motion

Citation
Wt. Strunz et al., Quantum trajectories for Brownian motion, PHYS REV L, 83(24), 1999, pp. 4909-4913
Citations number
36
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
83
Issue
24
Year of publication
1999
Pages
4909 - 4913
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(199912)83:24<4909:QTFBM>2.0.ZU;2-Q
Abstract
We present the stochastic Schrodinger equation for the dynamics of a quantu m particle coupled to a high temperature environment and apply it to the dy namics of:a driven, damped, nonlinear quantum oscillator. Apart from an ini tial slip on the environmental memory time scale, in the mean, our result r ecovers the solution of the known non-lindblad quantum Brownian motion mast er equation. A remarkable feature of our powerful stochastic approach is: i ts localization property: individual quantum trajectories remain localized wave packets for all times, even for the classically chaotic system conside red here, the localization being stronger as h -->0.