Parameter scaling in the decoherent quantum-classical transition for chaotic systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Pattanayak, Arjendu K ^a   Sundaram, Bala ^b   Greenbaum, Benjamin D ^c  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRATION; LYAPUNOV METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; DECOHERENT QUANTUM CLASSICAL TRANSITION; LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; PARAMETER SCALING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037428573     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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