{
  "id": "quant-ph/0504017",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2005-04-04T09:42:54.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-04-04T09:42:54.000Z",
  "title": "An Operator-Based Exact Treatment of Open Quantum Systems",
  "authors": [
    "S. Nicolosi"
  ],
  "comment": "To appear on Open Systems and Information Dynamics",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "\"Quantum mechanics must be regarded as open systems. On one hand, this is due to the fact that, like in classical physics, any realistic system is subjected to a coupling to an uncontrollable environment which influences it in a non-negligible way. The theory of open quantum systems thus plays a major role in many applications of quantum physics since perfect isolation of quantum system is not possible and since a complete microscopic description or control of the environment degrees of freedom is not feasible or only partially so\" [1]. Practical considerations therefore force one to seek for a simpler, effectively probabilistic description in terms of an open system. There is a close physical and mathematical connection between the evolution of an open system, the state changes induced by quantum measurements, and the classical notion of a stochastic process. The paper provides a bibliographic review of this interrelations, it shows the mathematical equivalence between markovian master equation and generalized piecewise deterministic processes [1] and it introduces the open system in an open observed environment model.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2005-04-04T09:42:54.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "open quantum systems",
      "operator-based exact treatment",
      "open system",
      "complete microscopic description",
      "markovian master equation"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2005quant.ph..4017N"
    }
  }
}