Loss of spin entanglement for accelerated electrons in electric and magnetic fields

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Doukas, Jason ^a   Hollenberg, Lloyd C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED ELECTRONS; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON SPINS; OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS; SPIN ENTANGLEMENT; TIME DEPENDENCE;

MAGNETIC FIELDS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ELECTRIC LOSSES;

EID: 67650286790     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.052109     Document Type: Article

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