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Calculating characteristic timescales for environmental decoherence in the presence of thermal gravitons

Creator:

Nelson, Hunter

Abstract:

Different models show the effects of environmental decoherence on a quantum system due to various environments of interest. One important quantity within these models is the decoherence time, which tells us how quickly environments wash away the coherence of local measurements. We can describe this effect as the quantum system...

Resource Type:

Undergraduate Thesis

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