Quantum theory of a Stern-Gerlach system in contact with a linearly dissipative environment

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 042105-042101

  Banerjee, Subhashish ^a   Ghosh, R ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DECOMPOSITION; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFUSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; HEAT LOSSES; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); THERMAL EFFECTS;

DENSITY MATRIX; HIGH TEMPERATURE BATH; INTERMEDIATE TEMPERATURE BATH; STERN GERLACH SYSTEM; ZERO TEMPERATURE BATH;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034297449     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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