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The interplay of coherence and decoherence is a vexing issue in contemporary condensed matter physics, quantum optics and quantum information theory. We present an overview of this important topical subject, in terms of three different paradigms, in which the 'noisy' effect of the environment on small quantum subsystems is analysed.

Keywords

Coherence, Decoherence, Dissipative Diamagnetism, Qubit.
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