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Quantum Fokker-Planck models: the Lindblad and Wigner approaches

Mathematical Physics 2008-10-22 v2 Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

In this article we try to bridge the gap between the quantum dynamical semigroup and Wigner function approaches to quantum open systems. In particular we study stationary states and the long time asymptotics for the quantum Fokker-Planck equation. Our new results apply to open quantum systems in a harmonic confinement potential, perturbed by a (large) sub-quadratic term.

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@article{arxiv.0806.2984,
  title  = {Quantum Fokker-Planck models: the Lindblad and Wigner approaches},
  author = {Anton Arnold and Franco Fagnola and Lukas Neumann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2984},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

19 pages, corrected typos and quoted Theorem 6 more precisely