Approaching infinite temperature upon repeated measurements of a quantum system

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Yi, Juyeon ^a,b   Talkner, Peter ^b   Ingold, Gert Ludwig ^b  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE HILBERT SPACE DIMENSION; PROJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM SYSTEM; REPEATED MEASUREMENTS; SHARP TRANSITION; SINGLE STATE; SYSTEM APPROACH; TIME LAG;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 80053214601     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.84.032121     Document Type: Article

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