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Theory of Decoherence Timescales of Molecular Processes

Ignacio Franco

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We introduce a general but simple theory of decoherence timescales based on an early-time expansion of the quantum dynamics of open quantum systems. The theory is useful to isolate decoherence mechanisms and to test approximate quantum dynamics methods.

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We introduce a general but simple theory of decoherence timescales based on an early-time expansion of the quantum dynamics of open quantum systems. The theory is useful to isolate decoherence mechanisms and to test approximate quantum dynamics methods.

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We introduce a general but simple theory of decoherence timescales based on an early-time expansion of the quantum dynamics of open quantum systems. The theory is useful to isolate decoherence mechanisms and to test approximate quantum dynamics methods.

Key concepts: Quantum decoherence, Quantum dissipation, Open quantum system, Statistical physics, Simple (philosophy), Quantum, Physics, Quantum mechanics

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