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Frontiers in Optics

Restoring Coherence Lost In a Mesoscopic Bath

Lu Jeu Sham, Wang Yao, Ren‐Bao Liu

Published Jan 1, 2006• 2 citations
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Abstract

Dynamics of entanglement of a two level system with a bath of a large but finite number of interacting particles is used to show how the two state coherence is lost and can be recovered.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2006.ltui1

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Publisher’s Note: Restoring Coherence Lost to a Slow Interacting Mesoscopic Spin Bath [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 077602 (2007)]

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Received 16 February 2007DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.099901©2007 American Physical Society

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