Extended weak coupling limit for Pauli-Fierz operators (Q934609)

The paper addresses so-called quantum Langevin dynamics as the limit of a joint dynamics of a small quantum system interacting weakly with the reservoir. Under these conditions the reduced dynamics of a small system is known to converge to a Markovian semigroup. The considered limiting behavior is now studied for a system-reservoir composite and thence called the extended weak coupling limit. The idea has been put forward by \textit{L. Accardi, A. Frigerio} and \textit{Y. G. Lu} [Commun. Math. Phys. 31, No.~1, 537--570 (1990; Zbl 0703.60096)]) and tested by the present authors before [J. Math. Phys. 48, No. 1, 012103, 19 p. (2007; Zbl 1121.81086)] when the composite system dynamics was generated by so-called Friedrichs Hamiltonian. Presently, the Pauli-Fierz operator form has been adopted which increased the level of technical obstacles. The main result is that, in a properly defined weak coupling limit, the interaction of the pertinent (coupled) subsystems, while interpreted as a quantum stochastic behavior of the composite, can be expressed in terms of the quantum white noise.