Decoherence dynamics of a qubit coupled to a quantum two-level system

Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications

Volumn 444, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 45-52

  Ashhab, S ^a   Johansson, J R ^b   Nori, Franco ^a,b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoherence; Quantum computing; Two level systems

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; COUPLED CIRCUITS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

DECOHERENCE; QUANTUM COMPUTING; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM (TLS); WEAK-COUPLING REGIMES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33746416592     PISSN: 09214534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physc.2006.04.106     Document Type: Article

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