Effect of feedback on the decoherence of a Schrödinger-cat state: A quantum trajectory description

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 4519-4527

  Goetsch, Peter ^a   Tombesi, Paolo ^b,c   Vitali, David ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^c INFM   (Italy)

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EID: 0000328215     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.4519     Document Type: Article

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