Bohr-Sommerfeld Quantization of Spin Hamiltonians

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 104011-104014

  Garg, Anupam ^a   Stone, Michael ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HAMILTONIANS; TENSORS;

BOHR-SOMMERFELD RULE; QUANTUM CORRECTIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 1242307268     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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