Modern Physics Letters A
REDUCED QUANTUM TOPOLOGICAL TRAJECTORY IN COHERENCE AND DECOHERENCE
Xuguang Shi, Yi-Shi Duan
Abstract
We have studied the topological expression of the reduced quantum trajectory using ϕ-mapping topological current theory and reduced density matrix theory. Moreover, we have proposed a new topological expression called the reduced quantum topological trajectory. Ignoring the coefficients of the winding number, we have found that the expression for the reduced quantum topological trajectory is the same for coherence as it is for decoherence. Under certain conditions, the vorticity of the reduced quantum topological trajectory is a topological invariant.