Suppression of Quantum Decoherence in an Aharonov–Bohm Ring
Author(s) -
Hisashi Aikawa,
Kensuke Kobayashi,
Shingo Katsumoto,
Yasuhiro Iye
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of the physical society of japan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1347-4073
pISSN - 0031-9015
DOI - 10.1143/jpsjs.72sa.5
Subject(s) - mesoscopic physics , quantum decoherence , physics , quantum , coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) , quantum mechanics , astronomical interferometer , aharonov–bohm effect , quantum dissipation , formalism (music) , interferometry , art , musical , magnetic field , visual arts
Quantum coherence is one of the most important topics in fundamental physics. In mesoscopic systems, decoherence has often been studied using Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometers, and in such a coherent transport, it is well known that probes of a sample play an essential role and transport property has been successfully described by the Landauer-Buttiker (LB) formalism. Here we present evidence that the quantum coherence itself is also affected by the probe configuration.
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