Role of the environmental spectrum in the decoherence and dephasing of multilevel quantum systems

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Hakioglu T ^a   Savran, Kerim ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIPOLE; HAMILTON SCALE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; PARAMETER; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 20044389925     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.115115     Document Type: Article

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