Non-Hamiltonian dynamics and trajectory methods in quantum phase spaces

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Daligault, Jérôme ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAMILTONIANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POISSON EQUATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

LIOUVILLE EQUATION; NON-HAMILTONIAN DYNAMICS; QUANTUM PHASE SPACES; QUANTUM TRAJECTORY METHODS; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0141461604     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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