Stochastic description for open quantum systems

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 319, Issue , 2003, Pages 188-212

  Calzetta, Esteban ^a   Roura, Albert ^b   Verdaguer, Enric ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Langevin equation; Open quantum systems; Quantum Brownian motion

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; QUANTUM THEORY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

SPECTRAL DENSITY FUNCTIONS;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

EID: 0037363929     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01521-2     Document Type: Article

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