Preservation of positivity by dynamical coarse graining

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Schaller, Gernot ^a   Brandes, Tobias ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); FOOD PRESERVATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPIN DYNAMICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ADIABATIC QUANTUM COMPUTATION; BORN-MARKOV APPROXIMATION; COARSE-GRAINING; COMPLETELY POSITIVE; DENSITY MATRICES; HAMILTONIAN; LINDBLAD; MARKOVIAN MASTER EQUATION; MASTER EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; OPTICAL-; PHONON BATHS; QUANTUM MASTER EQUATIONS; REDUCED-DENSITY-MATRIX; ROTATING WAVE APPROXIMATIONS; SECULAR APPROXIMATION; SPIN SYSTEMS; SPIN-BOSON MODELS; THERMALIZATION; TIME EVOLUTIONS; TIME SCALING;

DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS;

EID: 49749104195     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.022106     Document Type: Article

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