Inhomogeneous quantum quenches

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn 2008, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Sotiriadis, Spyros ^a   Cardy, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ALL SOULS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conformal field theory; Entanglement in extended quantum systems (theory); Quantum transport in one dimension; Stationary states

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549123507     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2008/11/P11003     Document Type: Article

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