Acta Sinica Quantum Optica
Spatial Decoherence Dynamics of Two Qubits Induced by Initial States of Cavity field
Zheng Tai-Yu
Abstract
We study the spatial decoherence dynamics for the relative position of two atoms interacting with a single-mode cavity which are assumed initially in three different states.It is assumed that the atomic relative position is in the state of a superposition of two Gaussian wave packets and that the cavity field is initially in thermal state,Fock state and squeezed state respectively.Based on the reduced density matrix for the atomic relative position,we study the influence of the atom-field interaction on the quantum coherence of atomic relative position.We find that for different initial states of the cavity field,the quantum decoherence dynamics of the atomic relative position is different.When the cavity field is initially in a thermal state or Fock state,the spatial coherence oscillates with decay and revival periodically,while when the cavity field is initially in a squeezed state,the spatial coherence of the two-atom relative position is partially destroyed,and the decay degree is connected with the value of the atomic relative position in a cosine law.