On the weak-coupling limit and complete positivity

DOI10.1016/S0960-0779(01)00078-9MaRDI QIDQ1600474zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Benatti, R. Floreanini

Publication date 13 June 2002

Published in Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0002062

zbMATH Keywords

irreversible time-evolutionopen quantum systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: We consider two non-interacting systems embedded in a heat bath. If they remain dynamically independent, physical inconsistencies are avoided only if the single-system reduced dynamics is completely positive also beyond the weak-coupling limit.

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