Pointer states via decoherence in a quantum measurement

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 121021-121028

  Venugopalan, Anu ^a,b  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY   (India)

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