Current in open quantum systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Gebauer, Ralph ^a,b   Car, Roberto ^c  

^a ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^b DEMOCRITOS NATIONAL SIMULATION CENTER   (Italy)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FERMI LEVEL; HAMILTONIANS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MARKOV APPROXIMATIONS; PAULI MASTER EQUATION; QUANTUM SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 19644401304     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.160404     Document Type: Article

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