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A Photonic System for Generating Unconditional Polarization-Entangled Photons Based on Multiple Quantum Interference
Published on: September 5, 2019
Dissipative geometric phase and decoherence in parity-violating chiral molecules
A Dorta-Urra1, H C Peñate-Rodríguez, P Bargueño
1Unidad asociada UAM-CSIC, Instituto de Física Fundamental (CSIC), Serrano 123, E-28006 Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
Within a generalized Langevin framework for open quantum systems, the cyclic evolution of a two-level system is analyzed in terms of the geometric phase extended to dissipative systems for Ohmic friction. This proposal is applied to the dynamics of chiral molecules where the tunneling and parity violating effects are competing. The effect of different system-bath coupling functions in the dissipated energy is shown to be crucial to understand the behavior of the geometric phase as well as the decoherence displayed by the corresponding interference patterns.
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