Quantum Zeno stabilization in weak continuous measurement of two qubits

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2006, Pages

  Ruskov, Rusko ^a,c   Korotkov, Alexander N ^b   Mizel, Ari ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California Riverside   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH AND NUCLEAR ENERGY   (Bulgaria)

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EID: 33244479871     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.085317     Document Type: Article

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