Entanglement degradation in a string of atoms coupled by the electromagnetic field

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Földi, Péter ^a   Benedict, Mihály G ^a   Serényi, Tamás ^a   Czirják, Attila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Decoherence; Entanglement degradation; Master equation; Multipartite entanglement; Superradiance

Indexed keywords

EID: 12144262652     PISSN: 02194775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219477504002105     Document Type: Article

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