Decoherence in an interacting quantum field theory: The vacuum case

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Koksma, Jurjen F ^a   Prokopec, Tomislav ^a   Schmidt, Michael G ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT FÜR THEORETISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

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EID: 77951606319     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.065030     Document Type: Article

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