Coherent-incoherent transition in the sub-Ohmic spin-boson model

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Chin, Alex ^a   Turlakov, Misha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33144472731     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.075311     Document Type: Article

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