Necessary condition for the thermalization of a quantum system coupled to a quantum bath

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Lychkovskiy, Oleg ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

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Indexed keywords

APPROACH TO EQUILIBRIUM; DECOHERENCE; EQUILIBRIUM STATE; EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS; HEAT BATH; INITIAL STATE; INTERACTION TERM; QUANTUM FRAMEWORK; QUANTUM SYSTEM; SINGLE SPIN; THERMALIZATION;

HAMILTONIANS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPIN DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

PHASE EQUILIBRIA;

EID: 77954824758     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.011123     Document Type: Article

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