Decoherence scenarios from microscopic to macroscopic superpositions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Strunz, Walter T ^a   Haake, Fritz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; MACROSCOPIC SUPERPOSITIONS; MICROSCOPIC SUPERPOSITIONS; PACKET SEPARATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0037965871     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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