Decoherence of a quantum magneto-oscillator: Effect of field-bath interaction
Abstract
We investigate the quantum dissipative dynamics of a charged magneto-oscillator(CMO) coupled to a heat bath of harmonic oscillators in the presence of an additional field-bath interaction. The problem is formulated within the framework of the generalized quantum Langevin equation, where the external confining potential modifies the random force correlations and the memory kernel of the environment, and the effective spring constant. Using the corresponding non-Markovian master equation, we examine the influence of the field-bath coupling on the temporal decay of the reduced density matrix of the system. We show that the additional interaction leads to an enhancement of the decoherence rate by altering the dissipative response of the bath. Thus our results shed light on the role of field-bath coupling in the quantum to classical transition of a CMO. The resulting fluctuation-dissipation relation is analyzed, and the position autocorrelation, position-velocity correlation and velocity autocorrelation are obtained explicitly. The dependence of these experimentally accessible quantities on the field-bath coupling parameter is discussed. We outline an experimental proposal for testing our theoretical predictions. The study sheds light on reservoir engineering which is central to quantum technologies.
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BibTeX
@misc{mandal2026decoherence,
title = {{Decoherence of a quantum magneto-oscillator: Effect of field-bath interaction}},
author = {Koushik Mandal and Suraka Bhattacharjee and Supurna Sinha},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.11137},
eprint = {2607.11137},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11137},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Decoherence of a quantum magneto-oscillator: Effect of field-bath interaction
AU - Koushik Mandal
AU - Suraka Bhattacharjee
AU - Supurna Sinha
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/26
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.11137
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11137
AB - We investigate the quantum dissipative dynamics of a charged magneto-oscillator(CMO) coupled to a heat bath of harmonic oscillators in the presence of an additional field-bath interaction. The problem is formulated within the framework of the generalized quantum Langevin equation, where the external confining potential modifies the random force correlations and the memory kernel of the environment, and the effective spring constant. Using the corresponding non-Markovian master equation, we examine the influence of the field-bath coupling on the temporal decay of the reduced density matrix of the system. We show that the additional interaction leads to an enhancement of the decoherence rate by altering the dissipative response of the bath. Thus our results shed light on the role of field-bath coupling in the quantum to classical transition of a CMO. The resulting fluctuation-dissipation relation is analyzed, and the position autocorrelation, position-velocity correlation and velocity autocorrelation are obtained explicitly. The dependence of these experimentally accessible quantities on the field-bath coupling parameter is discussed. We outline an experimental proposal for testing our theoretical predictions. The study sheds light on reservoir engineering which is central to quantum technologies.
ER -