Geometric phase in open systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 16, 2003, Pages

  Carollo, A ^a,c   Fuentes Guridi, I ^b   Santos, M França ^a   Vedral, V ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DECOMPOSITION; DIFFUSION; HAMILTONIANS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

BERRYS PHASES; DENSITY MATRIX; DEPHASING; GEOMETRIC PHASE; MARKOVIAN MASTER EQUATION; SPONTANEOUS DECAY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037527555     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.90.160402     Document Type: Article

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