Decoherence: Specific Models and Systems  

In General > s.a. dissipation; Rotor; spin models.
@ Chaotic environment: Blume-Kohout & Zurek PRA(03)qp/02; Hornberger & Sipe PRA(03) [massive Brownian particle]; Bandyopadhyay EPL(09)-a0806.
@ Classically chaotic: Hu & Shiokawa ht/95; Zurek PS(98)qp, APPB(98); Jalabert & Pastawski PRL(01)cm/00; Toscano et al PRA(05).
@ Coupled oscillators: de Ponte et al qp/03; Lombardo & Villar IJMPB(06)qp/05 [and chaotic degrees of freedom], PRA(05)qp [composite environment].
@ Spin environment: Gedik SSC(06)qp/05 [two spins in spin environment]; Cormick & Paz PRA(08)-a0709, a0709, PRA(08)a0804; > s.a. spin models.
@ Oscillator + other system: Unruh & Zurek PRD(89) [+ 1D massless scalar]; Sinha PLA(97)qp/05 [at T = 0]; Maia & Dalvit PRA(00)qp [+ radiation]; Schlosshauer et al PRA(08)-a0712 [+ 2-level systems].
@ Quantum walk: Prokof'ev & Stamp PRA(06) [on hypercubic lattice]; Annabestani et al a0910 [1D line].
@ Other models: Meyer qp/98 [based on Dirac equation], qp/98 [coarse + fine degrees of freedom, scale decoherence]; Lanz & Vacchini IJTP(98)qp/99 [isolated system]; Kleckner & Ron PRA(01) [gas reservoir]; Salgado & Sánchez-Gómez qp/02 [spectral and stochastic methods]; van Wezel et al PRL(05)cm/04, cm/06 [spontaneous symmetry breaking]; Lombardo & Villar PLA(05) [Brownian motion, zero-point fluctuations]; Serafini et al JOB(05)qp [continuous variables]; Braun PRL(06)qp/05 [many 2-level atoms]; Barenboim et al NPB(06) [neutrinos]; Bellomo et al JPA(07) [frictional]; Domínguez-Clarimon AP(07) [particle crossing a medium]; Pineda a0711-PhD [1, 2, and n qubits]; Adami & Erdos a0802 [electron coupled to phonon bath].
@ Matter-wave interferometers: Hackermüller Nat(04)feb [C70 molecules, double slit, T > 1000 K]; Uys et al PRL(05), Burkov et al PRL(07); Villar & Lombardo IJMPB(07)-a0707, JPCS(07)-a0707.
> Other quantum mechanics systems: see Open System; quantum systems.

Gravity-Related > s.a. black-hole information and thermodynamics; quantum cosmology; quantum spacetime.
@ Particle in curved background: Mensky & Novikov IJMPD(96) [with closed timelike curves].
@ Gravitational waves: Reynaud et al EPL(01)qp, IJMPA(02)gq/01 [and planets]; Reynaud et al in(07)-a0806, a0801-in.
@ Spacetime fluctuations: Power & Percival PRS(00); Wu et al NCB(00); Tamburini a0910 [with entangled photons]; > s.a. matter in quantum gravity.
@ Gravitation, other: Kiefer PRD(92); Kay CQG(98)ht [Newtonian quantum gravity]; Kiefer LNP(00); Haba IJTP(01) [thermal gravitons]; Calucci CQG(04)qp/03 [graviton emission]; Terashima & Ueda JPA(05)qp/03 [and spacetime curvature]; Gambini et al GRG(07) [pedagogical]; Kay & Abyaneh a0710 [Kay's proposal]; Anastopoulos & Hu CQG(08)-a0803 [gravity-induced].
@ Cosmology: Castagnino & Lombardo GRG(96); Campo & Parentani PRD(08)-a0805 [entropy of fluctuations]; > s.a. decoherence [self-induced].

Other Field Theories > s.a. decoherence [particle physics, Lorentz invariance].
@ Scalar field: Giraud & Serreau a0910 [self-interacting, and thermalization]; Koksma et al a0910.
@ Electrodynamics: Kiefer PRD(92); Anglin & Zurek PRD(96)qp/95; Haba JPA(00) [at finite T]; Levinson qp/03 [electron beams], Hsiang & Ford PRL(04) [electrons and electromagnetic field fluctuations]; Bellomo et al PRA(06) [free particle and electromagnetic field at finite T]; > s.a. QED, quantum field theory effects in curved spacetime.


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