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This set of tutorial reviews is dedicated to all aspects of irreversibility and time asymmetry in quantum mechanics. The main themes addressed are: - theoretical aspects of quantum irreversible dynamics - open quantum systems and applications - foundational aspects of irreversible quantum dynamics -...

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Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service), Conference on Irreversible Quantum Dynamics
Other Authors: Benatti, Fabio, 1960-, Floreanini, R. (Roberto), 1957-
Format: Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2003]
Series:Lecture notes in physics ; 622.
Subjects:
Irreversible processes > Congresses.
Space and time > Congresses.
Symmetry (Physics) > Congresses.
Irreversible processes.
Space and time.
Symmetry (Physics)
Electronic books.
Conference proceedings.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Quantum theory of irreversibility: open systems and continuum mechanics / Geoffrey L. Sewell
  • Selected apsects of Markovian and non-Markovian quantum master equations / Karl Lendi
  • Apsects of open quantum dynamics / Antoine Royer
  • Concepts and methods in the theory of open quantum systems / Heinz-Peter Breuer, Francesco Petruccione
  • Decoherence-free subspaces and subsystems / Daniel A. Lidar, K. Birgitta Whaley
  • Controlled quantum open systems / Robert Alicki
  • Three different manifestations of the quantum zeno effect / Paolo Facchi, Saverio Pascazio
  • Progressive decoherence and total environmental disentanglement / Lajos Diósi
  • Dynamics of dissipative quantum systems: from path integrals to master equations / Joachim Ankerhold
  • Quantum entropies in a classical context / Mark Fannes
  • Irreversibility and the foundations of quantum mechanics / GianCarlo Ghirardi
  • An attempt at relativistic spontaneous localization / Alberto Rimini
  • The quantum jump approach and quantum trajectories / Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt
  • Irreversibility, resonances and rigged Hilbert spaces / Ioannis E. Antoniou, Manolo Gadella
  • Markovian master equations and resonances in quantum open systems / Andrzej Kossakowski
  • A new topology for an axiom of quantum mechanics / Arno Bohm, Sujeewa Wickramasekara
  • The importance of boundary conditions in quantum mechanics / Rafael de la Madrid
  • Time asymmetric quantum mechanics and relativistic resonances / Piotr Kielanowski
  • Irreversibility in the framework of Hermitian and non-Hermitian treatments of resonance states / Cleanthes A. Nicolaides.