Convolutionless non-markovian master equations and quantum trajectories: Brownian motion

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 5 A, 2004, Pages

  Strunz, Walter T ^a   Yu, Ting ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLUTION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HARMONIC GENERATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

NON-MARKOVIAN MASTER EQUATIONS; QUANTUM BROWNIAN MOTION (QBM); QUANTUM SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC SCHRÖDINGER EQUATIONS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 3042771511     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.052115     Document Type: Article

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