Decoherence scenarios from microscopic to macroscopic superpositions

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 11-

  Strunz, Walter T ^a   Haake, Fritz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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EID: 85037217069     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.67.022102     Document Type: Article

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