Environment-induced superselection rules in Markovian regime

Communications in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 245-265

  Olkiewicz, R ^a,b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

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EID: 0033235582     PISSN: 00103616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002200050756     Document Type: Review

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