Wave-packet and coherent control dynamics

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Volumn 60, Issue , 2009, Pages 487-511

  Ohmori, Kenji ^a  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Decoherence; Information processing with molecular eigenstates; Quantum carpet; Quantum ripple; Wave packet interferometry

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTERFEROMETRY; MOLECULES; QUANTUM OPTICS;

COHERENT CONTROL; CONTROL DYNAMIC; DECOHERENCE; EIGENSTATES; INFORMATION PROCESSING WITH MOLECULAR EIGENSTATE; QUANTUM CARPET; QUANTUM RIPPLE; QUANTUM SYSTEM; SHORT LASER PULSE; WAVE PACKET INTERFEROMETRIES;

WAVE PACKETS;

EID: 63849153826     PISSN: 0066426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.59.032607.093818     Document Type: Review

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