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J. Math. Phys. 17, 821 (1976); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.522979 (5 pages)

Completely positive dynamical semigroups of N‐level systems

Vittorio Gorini, Andrzej Kossakowski, and E. C. G. Sudarshan

Department of Physics, Center for Particle Theory, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712

We establish the general form of the generator of a completely positive dynamical semigroup of an N‐level quantum system, and we apply the result to derive explicit inequalities among the physical parameters characterizing the Markovian evolution of a 2‐level system.

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  • 05.30.-d

    Quantum statistical mechanics

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0022-2488 (print)  
1089-7658 (online)

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