Origin of the canonical ensemble: Thermalization with decoherence

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Yuan, Shengjun ^a,b   Katsnelson, Mikhail I ^a   De Raedt, Hans ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Canonical ensemble; Quantum statistical mechanics; Thermalization, decoherence; Time dependent Schr dinger equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349263493     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.78.094003     Document Type: Article

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