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In our discussion of
quantum fractals, we neglect completely
the continuous part of the time evolution. Here we are not
interested in "when" jumps happen. We are only interested in the
final pattern produced by a long sequence of jumps. Normally spin
interacts with a magnetic field (if present), which causes our
spin sphere to rotate around the direction of the magnetic field
vector. Such a rotation, between jumps, would smear out our
pattern. To study the pattern we neglect the rotation part. Once
we discard the continuous evolution, the timing of jumps does not
really matter, so we neglect this part of EEQT algorithm (timing
is very important in simulations of particle detectors, arrival
and tunneling times. Here, we simulate jumps as fast as our
computer can crunch the numbers.
2002-04-11