Quantum Brownian motion of a macroscopic object in a general environment

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 432-444

  Chou, Chung Hsien ^a,b   Hu, B L ^b   Yu, Ting ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoherence; Master equation; Quantum Brownian motion

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COHERENT LIGHT; ELECTRONIC STATES; SPECTRAL DENSITY; THERMAL EFFECTS;

DECOHERENCE; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM PHENOMENA; MASTER EQUATIONS; QUANTUM BROWNIAN MOTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 36448944754     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.09.025     Document Type: Article

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