Causality in the excitation exchange between identical atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 4060-4069

  Berman, P R ^a   Dubetsky, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY;

DIAGRAMMATIC TECHNIQUE; EXCITATION EXCHANGE; HEISENBERG OPERATOR; SCHRODINGER PICTURE;

ATOMS;

EID: 0031162797     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.55.4060     Document Type: Article

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