Conditional quantum dynamics with several observers

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 221091-2210916

  Dziarmaga, Jacek ^a,b   Dalvit, Diego A R ^a   Zurek, Wojciech H ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; FLUORESCENCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; PHOTODETECTORS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MARKOV APPROXIMATION; QUANTUM COHERENCE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 1942540114     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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