Cumulant expansion for studying damped quantum solitons

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 2442-2457

  Schmidt, Eduard ^a   Knöll, Ludwig ^a   Welsch, Dirk Gunnar ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CORRELATION METHODS; DAMPING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; STATISTICS;

DAMPED QUANTUM SOLITONS; PHASE-SPACE FUNCTIONS; PHOTON-NUMBER CORRELATIONS; QUANTUM NONDEMOLITION (QND);

SOLITONS;

EID: 0000349790     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.2442     Document Type: Article

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