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TL;DR

This paper refutes Hornberger and Vacchini's claim that their quantum Boltzmann equation accounts for specific collisional decoherence, demonstrating that the author's recent work provides additional insights not captured by their theory.

Contribution

The author provides a calculation that disproves the claim that their recent work is redundant, highlighting the unique advantages of their approach.

Findings

Disproved the claim that their work is already described by Hornberger and Vacchini's theory.

Showed that their recent work offers additional insights into collisional decoherence.

Refuted the conclusion that their approach has no advantage over existing theories.

Abstract

Hornberger and Vacchini [Phys. Rev. A82, 036101 (2010); arxiv:0907.3018] claim that the specific collisional momentum decoherence, pointed out in my recent work [Phys. Rev. A80, 064104 (2009); arXiv:0905.3908], is already described by their theory. However, I have performed a calculation whereby I disprove the authors' claim and refute their conclusion that my recent work had no advantage over theirs.