Vibrational dephasing of a Morse oscillator
摘要
An exact analysis of the evolution of the density operator from an arbitrary initial state is presented for an anharmonic Morse potential. The evolution is decoherent due to a quantum environment modeled as an infinite set of bosonic excitations. The treatment clearly brings out the effect of anharmonicity on the decoherence time beyond the harmonic limit.
Graphical AbstractAn exact analysis of the evolution of the density operator from an arbitrary initial state is presented for an anharmonic Morse potential. The evolution is decoherent because of the presence of a quantum environment that is viewed as a collection of an infinite set of bosonic excitations. The treatment clearly brings out the effect of anharmonicity on the decoherence time beyond the harmonic limit.