Entanglement generation in uniformly accelerating atoms: Reexamination of the Unruh effect

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Benatti, F ^a,b   Floreanini, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b SEZIONE DI TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY MATRIX; MASTER EQUATIONS; MINKOWSKI VACUUM; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY;

ACCELERATION; ATOMIC PHYSICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; THERMOANALYSIS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 69649108579     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.012112     Document Type: Review

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