Quantum decoherence, Zeno process, and time symmetry breaking

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

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Petrosky, T ^a   Barsegov, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DECOHERENCE; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM; TIME SYMMETRY BREAKING; WAVE FUNCTIONS; ZENO PROCESS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KINETIC THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 37649028691     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.046102     Document Type: Article

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