• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.85.105011
Corpus ID: 118485493

Stochastic potential and quantum decoherence of heavy quarkonium in the quark-gluon plasma

@article{Akamatsu2012StochasticPA,
  title={Stochastic potential and quantum decoherence of heavy quarkonium in the quark-gluon plasma},
  author={Y. Akamatsu and A. Rothkopf},
  journal={Physical Review D},
  year={2012},
  volume={85},
  pages={105011}
}

• Y. Akamatsu, A. Rothkopf
• Published 2012
• Physics
• Physical Review D

We propose an open quantum systems approach to the physics of heavy quarkonia in a thermal medium, based on stochastic quantum evolution. This description emphasizes the importance of collisions with the environment and focuses on the concept of spatial decoherence of the heavy quarkonium wave function. It is shown how to determine the parameters of the dynamical evolution, i.e. the real potential and the noise strength, from a comparison with quantities to be obtained from lattice QCD… Expand

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