Virtues and limitations of Markovian master equations with a time-dependent generator

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 633-658

  Van Wonderen, A J ^a   Lendi, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Physikalisch Chemisches I der U Z   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gorini Kossakowski Sudarshan Lindblad generators; Jaynes cummings model; Markovian master equations; Quantum dissipation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034338434     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018671424739     Document Type: Article

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