Three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of the quantum linear Boltzmann equation

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Breuer, Heinz Peter ^a   Vacchini, Bassano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

CUMULANTS; EIGENSTATES; GAUSSIAN STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC WAVE FUNCTION; SUPERPOSITIONS;

LINEAR EQUATIONS;

EID: 34548863961     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.036706     Document Type: Article

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