Rigorous Born approximation and beyond for the spin-boson model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  DiVincenzo, David P ^a   Loss, Daniel ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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ARTICLE; BOSON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OSCILLATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

EID: 15444362514     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.035318     Document Type: Article

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