When is quantum decoherence dynamics classical?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Gong, Jiangbin ^a   Brumer, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; DATA PROCESSING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DECOHERENCE THEORY; LINEAR COUPLING; PERTURBATIVE TREATMENT; QUANTUM DECOHERENCE; QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037422906     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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