A note on symmetry reductions of the Lindblad equation: Transport in constrained open spin chains

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Buča, Berislav ^a   Prosen, Tomaž ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE SYMMETRY; HEISENBERG; HILBERT SPACE FORMALISM; JUMP OPERATORS; LINDBLAD; LINDBLAD EQUATIONS; MULTIPLE STEADY STATE; NON-EQUILIBRIUM STEADY STATE; QUANTUM TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; SPIN 1/2; SPIN CHAINS; SPIN TRANSPORT; SYMMETRY REDUCTION; THERMODYNAMIC LIMITS; TOTAL MAGNETIZATION;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84864339779     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/073007     Document Type: Article

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