Dissipative quantum systems in strong laser fields: Stochastic wave-function method and Floquet theory

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 3101-3116

  Breuer, Heinz Peter ^a   Petruccione, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTIONS; LASER PULSES; LASERS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DENSITY MATRIX EQUATION; DISSIPATIVE QUANTUM SYSTEMS; FLOQUET THEORY; HILBERT SPACE; JUMP OPERATOR; LASER FIELDS; STOCHASTIC WAVE FUNCTION METHOD;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0031122857     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.3101     Document Type: Article

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