Decoherence of a central quantum system coupled to anXYspin chain
Yong-Cheng Ou, Heng Fan · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical · 2007
For a central system uniformly coupled to a XY spin-1/2 bath in a transverse field, we explicitly calculate the Loschmidt echo(LE) to characterize decoherence quantitatively. We find that the anisotropy parameter $\gamma $ affects decoherence of the central system sensitively when $\gamma \in [0,1]$% , in particular, the LE becomes unit without varying with time when $\gamma =0 $, implying that environment-induced decoherence vanishes . Some other cases in which the LE is unit are discussed also.