Action scales for quantum decoherence and their relation to structures in phase space

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 5 A, 2004, Pages

  Alonso, Daniel ^a   Brouard, S ^a   Palao, José P ^a   Mayato, R Sala ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COHERENT LIGHT; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OSCILLATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DECOHERENCE; PHASE SPACES; QUANTUM DISPLACEMENT OPERATOR; QUANTUM SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 3042736709     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.052111     Document Type: Article

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