Dual-probe decoherence microscopy: Probing pockets of coherence in a decohering environment

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jeske, Jan ^a,b,c   Cole, Jared H ^a,b,c   Müller, Clemens ^b,d   Marthaler, Michael ^b,c   Schön, Gerd ^b,c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DARK STATE; DECOHERENCE; NON-MARKOVIAN; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEEBECK EFFECT;

PROBES;

EID: 84857601883     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/2/023013     Document Type: Article

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