We consider the quantized atom-field model and for the regime ĤE ĤS Ĥ ; where ĤE , ĤS and Ĥ respectively represent the self-Hamiltonians of the environment, the system, and the interaction between the system and the environment. Considering a single-mode quantized field we obtain the time evolution operator for the model. Using our time evolution operator we calculate the time-dependent pointer states of the system and the environment, which are characterized by their property of not entangling with states of another subsystem. We obtain a closed form expression for the off-diagonal element of the reduced density matrix of the system and study the decoherence of the central system in our model. We show that for the case where the system initially is not prepared in one of its pointer states, the off-diagonal element of the reduced density matrix of the system decays with a decoherence time that is inversely proportional to the square root of the mass of the bosonic field particles.
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