Tunneling with dissipation and decoherence for a large spin

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 544121-544124

  Chudnovsky, E M ^a   Martinez Hidalgo, X ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ENERGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0036695662     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.66.054412     Document Type: Article

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