On the Long-Time Behavior of the Quantum Fokker-Planck Equation

Monatshefte fur Mathematik

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 237-257

  Sparber, C ^a,d   Carrillo, J A ^b   Dolbeault, J ^c   Markowich, P A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fokker Planck operator; Lindblad condition; Logarithmic Sobolev inequality; Long time asymptotic; Open quantum system; Wigner transform

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842536803     PISSN: 00269255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00605-003-0043-4     Document Type: Article

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