Dissipation and decoherence in a quantum oscillator

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 125, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 1183-1192

  Ambegaokar, Vinay ^a  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Debye Waller identity; Decoherence; Dissipation; No decoherence without dissipation; Quantum oscillator; Time evolution of reduced density matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845881989     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-005-8018-6     Document Type: Article

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