Unravellings of the master equation and the emergence of a classical world

Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 255-268

  Rigo, M ^a   Gisin, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

MASTER EQUATIONS; OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0001320735     PISSN: 14644266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1355-5111/8/1/018     Document Type: Article

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