Preferred states of decoherence under intermediate system-environment coupling

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Wen Ge ^a,b   He, Lewei ^a   Gong, Jiangbin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; DECOHERENCE; DYNAMICAL MODEL; QUANTUM DYNAMICS; SUPERPOSITION STATE; SYSTEM-ENVIRONMENT COUPLING; THERMALIZATION PROCESS; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; PHYSICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84863158453     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.070403     Document Type: Article

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