Dynamics of the density matrix in contact with a thermal bath and the quantum master equation

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Mori, Takashi ^a   Miyashita, Seiji ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coarse grained dynamics; Projection operator; Quantum master equation; Relaxation phenomena

Indexed keywords

EID: 57549103177     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.77.124005     Document Type: Article

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