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Quantum solutions of the damped harmonic oscillator

Gerard J Milburn, Daniel F. Walls

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Solutions to the Fokker–Planck equation for a damped harmonic oscillator corresponding to uniquely quantum-mechanical initial states with no classical correspondence are given.

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Solutions to the Fokker–Planck equation for a damped harmonic oscillator corresponding to uniquely quantum-mechanical initial states with no classical correspondence are given.

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Solutions to the Fokker–Planck equation for a damped harmonic oscillator corresponding to uniquely quantum-mechanical initial states with no classical correspondence are given.

Key concepts: Physics, Harmonic oscillator, Quantum harmonic oscillator, Quantum, Quantum mechanics, Correspondence principle (sociology), Classical mechanics, Fokker–Planck equation

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