Decoherence and the loschmidt echo

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 21, 2003, Pages

  Cucchietti, F M ^a   Dalvit, D A R ^a   Paz, J P ^a   Zurek, W H ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COHERENT LIGHT; ENTROPY; HAMILTONIANS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

DECOHERENCE; LOSCHMIDT ECHO;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0346421133     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.210403     Document Type: Article

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