Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 1374 - 1377 (2000)Completely Positive Quantum Dissipation
Bassano Vacchini Received 9 April 1999 A completely positive master equation describing quantum dissipation for a Brownian particle is derived starting from microphysical collisions, exploiting a recently introduced approach to subdynamics of a macrosystem. The obtained equation can be cast into Lindblad form with a single generator for each Cartesian direction. Temperature dependent friction and diffusion coefficients for both position and momentum are expressed in terms of the collision cross section. ©2000 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.1374 See AlsoComment: R. F. O'Connell, Comment on “Completely Positive Quantum Dissipation”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 028901 (2001) Reply: Bassano Vacchini, Vacchini Replies:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 028902 (2001) [ Abstract | Previous article | Next article | Issue 7 ] |
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