Decoherence and Schrödinger-cat states in a Stern-Gerlach-type experiment

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 4307-4310

  Venugopalan, Anu ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

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EID: 0000243490     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.56.4307     Document Type: Article

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