Environment-assisted invariance, entanglement, and probabilities in quantum physics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Zurek, Wojciech Hubert ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY;

ENVIRONMENT-INDUCED SUPERSELECTION; QUANTUM PHYSICS; QUANTUM SYMMETRY; SCHMIDT DECOMPOSITION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0038397513     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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