Resonance theory of decoherence and thermalization

DOI10.1016/j.aop.2007.04.013zbMath1201.81083arXivquant-ph/0702207OpenAlexW1988791435MaRDI QIDQ2472354

Israel Michael Sigal, Gennady P. Berman, Marco Merkli

Publication date: 21 February 2008

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702207

zbMATH Keywords

decoherenceopen quantum systemsLiouville operatorthermalizationquantum resonancesreduced density matrixthermal quantum fieldscomplex spectral deformationcoupling to environmentnon-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25) Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28)

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