Completely positive dynamical semigroups of <i>N</i>-level systems

19763,803 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Vittorio Gorini · The University of Texas at Austin

Andrzej Kossakowski · The University of Texas at Austin

E. C. G. Sudarshan · Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Abstract

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.

Topics & Keywords

Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates Quantum many-body systems Quantum chaos and dynamical systems

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Reduced inequalities

Publication Details

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics

Volume 17, Issue 5, pp. 821-825

DOI: 10.1063/1.522979

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