Structure of completely positive quantum master equations with memory kernel

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Breuer, Heinz Peter ^a   Vacchini, Bassano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL PROBABILITIES; COMPLETELY POSITIVE; DYNAMICAL MAPS; NON-MARKOVIAN; NON-MARKOVIAN DYNAMICS; QUANTUM DYNAMICS; QUANTUM MASTER EQUATIONS; QUANTUM REGIMES; SEMI MARKOV PROCESS; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION;

MARKOV PROCESSES; OPEN SYSTEMS; QUANTUM THEORY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 66349099310     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.79.041147     Document Type: Article

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