Quantum Dynamical Semigroups and Applications

✍ Scribed by Robert Alicki, Karl Lendi (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 136
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics 717
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Reinvigorated by advances and insights, in particular from the active fields of quantum information and computing, the quantum theory of irreversible processes has recently attracted growing attention.

This volume introduces the very basic concepts of semigroup dynamics of open quantum systems and reviews a variety of modern applications. The present book, originally published as Vol. 286 (1987) in Lecture in Physics, has been newly typeset, revised and corrected and also expanded to include a review on recent developments.

✦ Table of Contents

General Theory and Applications to Unstable Particles....Pages 1-46
N-Level Systems and Applications to Spectroscopy....Pages 47-107
Recent Developments....Pages 109-121

✦ Subjects

Statistical Physics;Quantum Physics;Thermodynamics;Theoretical and Computational Chemistry;Quantum Computing, Information and Physics