Decoherence and the rate of entropy production in chaotic quantum systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 3373-3376

  Monteoliva, Diana ^a   Paz, Juan Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENTROPY; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

CHAOTIC QUANTUM SYSTEMS; DECOHERENCE; HARMONIC OSCILLATOR; QUANTUM CHAOS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034301280     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3373     Document Type: Article

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