Enhancement of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling by Landau-Zener Transitions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Ankerhold, Joachim ^a   Grabert, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; HAMILTONIANS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LANDAU-ZENER TRANSITIONS; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM TUNNELING; SPIN FLIPS; TUNNELING RATE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0042208348     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.016803     Document Type: Article

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