Measurement of decoherence of electron waves and visualization of the quantum-classical transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Sonnentag, Peter ^a   Hasselbach, Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB INTERACTIONS; INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUANTUM THEORY;

CONTROLLED DECOHERENCE; DECOHERENCE; FREE ELECTRONS; QUANTUM CLASSICAL TRANSITION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 34547373866     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.200402     Document Type: Article

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