The structures of state space concerning quantum dynamical semigroups

Reviews in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Baumgartner, Bernhard ^a   Narnhofer, Heide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Lindblad generator; Open system; Schr dingers cat; semigroup; time evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858255763     PISSN: 0129055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129055X12500018     Document Type: Review

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