Coupled-channels density-matrix approach to low-energy nuclear collision dynamics: A technique for quantifying quantum decoherence effects on reaction observables

Physical Review C - Nuclear Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Diaz Torres, Alexis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79251496672     PISSN: 05562813     EISSN: 1089490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevC.82.054617     Document Type: Article

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