Fluctuations of quantum currents and unravelings of master equations

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 341-356

  Dereziński, Jan ^a   De Roeck, Wojciech ^b,c   Maes, Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Quantum fluctuations; Quantum stochastic calculus; Weak coupling limit

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849102414     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-008-9500-8     Document Type: Article

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