Emergence of randomness and arrow of time in quantum walks

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Shikano, Yutaka ^a,b   Chisaki, Kota ^c   Segawa, Etsuo ^a   Konno, Norio ^c  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARROW OF TIME; DISCRETE TIME; LIMIT DISTRIBUTION; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PROJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM WALK; TIME-SCALES;

MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77954184004     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.062129     Document Type: Article

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