Limits in the characteristic-function description of non-Lindblad-type open quantum systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Maniscalco, Sabrina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTION; DENSITY MATRIX; NON-LINDBLAD DYNAMICS; QUANTUM SYSTEMS;

DENSITY (OPTICAL); FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 27144554206     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.024103     Document Type: Article

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