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arXiv:2009.10928 · The European Physical Journal Plus

Gamow vectors formalism applied to the Loschmidt echo

Sebastián Fortín, Manuel Gadella, Federico Holik, Marcelo Losada

Published Sep 1, 2020• 2 citations
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10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00756-3

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