Decoherence in atom-field interactions: A treatment using superoperator techniques

Physics Reports

Volumn 432, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-41

  Moya Cessa, Héctor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ASTROFÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Dispersive interaction; Quantum state reconstruction; Quasiprobability distribution functions; Superoperators

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748163932     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2006.06.001     Document Type: Review

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