Coarse grainings and irreversibility in quantum field theory

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1009-1020

  Anastopoulos, C ^a  

^a Blackett Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002267269     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.56.1009     Document Type: Article

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