Topology by dissipation in atomic quantum wires

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 971-977

  Diehl, Sebastian ^a,b   Rico, Enrique ^a,b   Baranov, Mikhail A ^a,b,c   Zoller, Peter ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRES; OPTICAL LATTICES; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEISMIC WAVES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; WIRE;

ATOMIC FERMIONS; DECOHERENCE FREE SUBSPACE; DISSIPATIVE DYNAMICS; LINDBLAD MASTER EQUATION; OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGICAL PHASIS; TOPOLOGICAL STATE; WINDING NUMBER;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 85027951489     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS2106     Document Type: Article

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