Unconditional pointer states from conditional master equations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 373-376

  Dalvit, Diego A R ^a   Dziarmaga, Jacek ^a,b   Zurek, Wojciech H ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CONDITIONAL MASTER EQUATION; UNCONDITIONAL POINTER STATE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0035130075     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.373     Document Type: Article

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