Nonlinear decoherence in quantum state preparation of a trapped ion

作者:Kuang, LM*; Zeng, HS; Tong, ZY
来源:PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 1999, 60(5): 3815-3819.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.60.3815

摘要

We present a nonlinear decoherence model which models decoherence effects caused by various decohering sources in a quantum system through a nonlinear coupling between the system and its environment, and apply it to investigating decoherence in nonclassical motional states of a single trapped ion. We obtain an exactly analytic solution of the model and find very good agreement with experimental results for the population decay rate of a single trapped ion observed in the NIST experiments by Meekhof and co-workers [D. M. Meekhof et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1796 (1996)]. [S1050-2947(99)05310-X].