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arxiv: 1007.4618 · v1 · submitted 2010-07-27 · 🪐 quant-ph

Decoherence of Fock States Leads to a Maximally Quantum State

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keywords statesenvironmentalfockfunctionquantumquantumnesswignerabsence
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We consider the Wigner function evolution of Fock states $|n\rangle$ linearly coupled to a Markovian bath of oscillators. In the absence of environmental coupling, apparent ``quantumness'' increases with $n$, but the presence of any environmental interaction causes high-$n$ states to lose their quantum features more rapidly than low-$n$ states. Using the negative volume of the Wigner function as a metric \cite{kenfack04}, we observe a time-dependent quantumness peak across the eigenstates.

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