Decoherence as decay of the Loschmidt echo in a Lorentz gas

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

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Cucchietti, F M ^a   Pastawski, H M ^a,b   Wisniacki, D A ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM THEORY;

DECOHERANCY; LORENTZ GAS; LOSCHMIDT ECHO; QUANTUM PHASE;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 37649029343     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.045206     Document Type: Article

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