%0 Journal Article
%T Decoherence and Matter Wave Interferometry
%A Tabish Qureshi
%A Anu Venugopalan
%J Physics
%D 2006
%I arXiv
%R 10.1142/S0217979208039113
%X A two-slit interference of a massive particle in the presence of environment induced decoherence is theoretically analyzed using a fully quantum mechanical calculation. The Markovian Master equation, derived from coupling the particle to a harmonic-oscillator heat bath, is used to obtain exact solutions which show the existence of an interference. Interestingly, decoherence does not affect the pattern, but only leads to a reduction in the fringe visibility.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602052v2