Título: | QUANTUM FEATURES OF HARMONIC OSCILLATORS: INVESTIGATING THE LIMITS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS | ||||||||||||
Autor: |
LUCA ABRAHAO PAIVA |
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Colaborador(es): |
THIAGO BARBOSA DOS SANTOS GUERREIRO - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 14/NOV/2024 | Língua(s): | ENGLISH - UNITED STATES |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||
Notas: |
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=68634&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=68634&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.68634 | ||||||||||||
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Quantum Mechanics is one of the most successful theories of all time. It
not only has a great predictive power, but also has completely changed the
way physics is understood. However, Quantum Mechanics does not predict its
own range of validity, and, in principle, the probabilistic description should
be valid in our macroscopic world. But it does not happen. In the core of the
explanation of why the description from Quantum Mechanics is substituted
by Classical Mechanics lies decoherence. The interaction of the many unseen
degrees of freedom from a macroscopic environment with a quantum system
makes it extremely hard to measure its quantum properties. In this context,
we explore how one can still detect non-classicality of oscillators in a
intermediate regime, whether in a mesoscopic scale or a oscillator with
a macroscopic number of excitations, via an optomechanical description. In
this work, we present the basics of the formalism of optomechanics, both
in the unitary dynamics and in an open quantum system approach. We
then discuss two different optomechanical systems, highlighting how we can
perceive its quantum features. At last, we discuss other possible schemes to
identify the quantum nature of harmonic oscillators in situations of increasing
macroscopic nature.
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