Quantum disentanglement in long-range orders and spontaneous symmetry breaking

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 309, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 254-261

  Shi, Yu ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disentanglement; Entanglement; Long range order; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISENTANGLEMENT; ENTANGLEMENT; LONG RANGE ORDERS; MANY-BODY SYSTEMS; PURE STATE; SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHYSICS; POLYMERIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0037463925     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(03)00128-2     Document Type: Article

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