Phase-space approach to the study of decoherence in quantum walks

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 523051-523059

  López, Cecilia C ^a   Paz, Juan Pablo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIFFUSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHASE SPACE METHODS; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

QUANTUM WALKS; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0942267739     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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