Decoherent dynamics of a two-level system coupled to a sea of spins

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 26, 1998, Pages 5710-5713

  Shao, Jiushu ^a,b,c   Hänggi, Peter ^b  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 4244184692     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.5710     Document Type: Article

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