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Master-equations for the study of decoherence

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

Different structures of master-equation used for the description of decoherence of a microsystem interacting through collisions with a surrounding environment are considered and compared. These results are connected to the general expression of the generator of a quantum dynamical semigroup in presence of translation invariance recently found by Holevo.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0301039,
  title  = {Master-equations for the study of decoherence},
  author = {Bassano Vacchini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0301039},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

10 pages, latex, no figures, to appear in Int. J. Theor. Phys