Matrix product simulations of non-equilibrium steady states of quantum spin chains

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2009, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Prosen, Tomaž ^a   Žnidarič, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Entanglement in extended quantum systems (theory); Quantum chaos; Quantum transport; Quantum transport in one dimension

Indexed keywords

EID: 65149096199     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/02/P02035     Document Type: Article

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