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Decoherence of Fermions Subject to a Quantum Bath

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The destruction of quantum-mechanical phase coherence by a fluctuating quantum bath has been investigated mostly for a single particle. However, for electronic transport through disordered samples and mesoscopic interference setups, we have to treat a many-fermion system subject to a quantum bath. Here, we review a novel technique for treating this situation in the case of ballistic interferometers, and discuss its application to the electronic Mach-Zehnder setup. We use the results to bring out the main features of decoherence in a many-fermion system and briefly discuss the same ideas in the context of weak localization.

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  • Shot Noise
  • Weak Localization
  • Zehnder Interferometer
  • Pauli Blocking
  • Classical Noise

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Marquardt, F. (2008). Decoherence of Fermions Subject to a Quantum Bath. In: Advances in Solid State Physics. Advances in Solid State Physics, vol 46. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-38235-5_13

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