Pure phase decoherence in a ring geometry

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Zhu, Z ^a   Aharony, A ^b,c,d   Entin Wohlman, O ^b,c,d   Stamp, P C E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AHARONOV-BOHM FLUX; FUNCTION OF TIME; PARTICLE HOPPING; PHASE DECOHERENCE; REDUCED-DENSITY MATRIX; RING GEOMETRY; SPIN BATH;

QUANTUM THEORY;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 77954202870     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.062127     Document Type: Article

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