Algebraic versus exponential decoherence in dissipative many-particle systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 15, 2013, Pages

  Cai, Zi ^a   Barthel, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENT-INDUCED DECOHERENCE; MANY-PARTICLE SYSTEMS; MARKOVIAN ENVIRONMENT; PERTURBATIVE TREATMENT; QUANTUM MANY-BODY SYSTEMS; THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS; TIME-DEPENDENT DENSITY MATRIX; TRANSVERSE-FIELD ISING MODEL;

ALGEBRA; ISING MODEL; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84885616080     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.150403     Document Type: Article

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