Quantum description of Einstein's Brownian motion

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

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Petruccione, Francesco ^a   Vacchini, Bassano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS; FRICTION COEFFICIENTS; QUANTUM TREATMENT;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CORRELATION METHODS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FRICTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; THEOREM PROVING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 41349106336     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.71.046134     Document Type: Article

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