Dynamics of a quantum phase transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Zurek, Wojciech H ^a   Dorner, Uwe ^b   Zoller, Peter ^c  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS; QUENCH RATE;

PHASE TRANSITIONS; PROBABILITY; QUENCHING; THERMODYNAMICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 27144451985     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.105701     Document Type: Article

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