Spin precession and real-time dynamics in the Kondo model: Time-dependent numerical renormalization-group study

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Anders, Frithjof B ^a   Schiller, Avraham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 33845681267     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.245113     Document Type: Article

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