Introducing Physical Relaxation Terms in Bloch Equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 603-613

  Bidegaray B ^a   Bourgeade, A ^b   Reignier, D ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b CEA CESTA   (France)

Author keywords

Bloch equations; Quantum optics; Relaxation terms

Indexed keywords

BLOCH EQUATION; EQUATION MODELS; NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSICAL RELAXATION; PROPERTY; RELAXATION MODELS; RELAXATION TERM;

EID: 0347708725     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6752     Document Type: Article

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