Phase-space measurements and decoherence for angular momentum systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02696v1
• Date: Mon, 04 May 2026 15:09:00 GMT
• Title: Phase-space measurements and decoherence for angular momentum systems
• Abstract summary: The monitoring of the three independent components of the angular momentum of a quantum system is modelled in two ways.<n>One describes the dynamics by the Lindblad equation generated by three independent angular momentum operators.<n>The other uses iterated measurements of the phase-space'' point on the sphere in terms of the positive operator-valued measure generated by SU(2) coherent states.
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• Abstract: The monitoring of the three independent components of the angular momentum (or spin) of a quantum system by its environment that does not isolate any preferred orientation is modelled in two different ways. One describes the dynamics by the Lindblad equation generated by three independent angular momentum operators. The other uses iterated measurements of the ``phase-space'' point on the sphere in terms of the positive operator-valued measure generated by SU(2) coherent states. In contrast to the equivalent scenario on a flat phase space, these two models give rise to subtle differences. Specifically, it is shown that the two super-operators corresponding to the two decoherence models for angular momentum systems are commutative, but their eigenvalues are different. Hence although both models give rise to phase-space decoherence, their dynamical behaviours are not equivalent. In either model, we find that the characterisation of classicality as represented by the decay rates of the elements of the density matrix (i.e. decoherence) and that as represented by the positivity of the quasiprobability distribution are not equivalent for angular momentum systems.

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