Contractivity of the Hilbert-Schmidt distance under open-system dynamics

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Xiaoting ^a   Schirmer, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTIVITY; HILBERT; HILBERT-SCHMIDT DISTANCE; LINDBLAD; LINDBLAD OPERATORS; OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS; QUANTUM STATE; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; TRACE-NORMS;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES;

EID: 66149086095     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.052326     Document Type: Article

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