Optical-Model Decoherence
The decoherence effect of an imaginary optical potential is:
If H0 = 0 in a toy model, then
- ??(x,x',t)/?t = –W(x) ?(x,x',t) – ?(x,x',t)W(x'),
- solution:
- ?(x,x',t) = e–W(x)t ?(x,x',0) e–W(x')t
- off-diagonal terms reduced, but diagonal also!