Universality of decoherence for macroscopic quantum superpositions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Strunz, Walter T ^a   Haake, Fritz ^b   Braun, Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HAMILTONIANS; MIXTURES; PROBABILITY; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

DECOHERENCE; MACROSCOPIC DOMAIN; QUANTUM SUPERPOSITION; WAVE PACKETS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0038303088     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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