Authors
DF Walls, GJ Milburn
Publication date
1985/4/1
Journal
Physical Review A
Volume
31
Issue
4
Pages
2403
Publisher
American Physical Society
Description
The effect of dissipation on a macroscopic superposition of quantum states is studied with use of a Markovian master-equation approach. It is shown that a superposition of two states is reduced to a mixture at a rate proportional to the separation between the two states. This underlines the difficulty of observing a superposition of macroscopic quantum states in practice.
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DF Walls, GJ Milburn - Physical Review A, 1985