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Five Lectures On Dissipative Master Equations

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

1 First Lecture: Basics 1.1 Physical Derivation of the Master Equation 1.2 Some Simple Implications 1.3 Steady State 1.4 Action to the Left 2 Second Lecture: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of L 2.1 A Simple Case First 2.2 The General Case 3 Third Lecture: Completeness of the Damping Bases 3.1 Phase Space Functions 3.2 Completeness of the Eigenvectors of L 3.3 Positivity Conservation 3.4 Lindblad Form of Liouville Operators 4 Fourth Lecture: Quantum-Optical Applications 4.1 Periodically Driven Damped Oscillator 4.2 Conditional and Unconditional Evolution 4.3 Physical Signicance of Statistical Operators 5 Fifth Lecture: Statistics of Detected Atoms 5.1 Correlation Functions 5.2 Waiting Time Statistics 5.3 Counting Statistics

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0206116,
  title  = {Five Lectures On Dissipative Master Equations},
  author = {Berthold-Georg Englert and Giovanna Morigi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0206116},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

58 pages, 10 figures; book chapter to appear in ``Coherent Evolution in Noisy Environments'', Lecture Notes in Physics, (Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York). Notes of lectures given in Dresden,23-27 April 2001