Colloquium : Non-Markovian dynamics in open quantum systems
University of Freiburg · University of Turku · +2 more institutions
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Abstract
An ongoing theme in quantum physics is the interaction of small quantum systems with an environment. If that environment has many degrees of freedom and is weakly coupled, it can often be reasonable to treat its decohering effect on the small system using a ``memoryless,'' or Markovian description. This Colloquium shows that for many phenomena a more refined, non-Markovian, treatment is necessary. The suite of developing theoretical tools is reviewed, with which recent progress on this problem has been based.
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- Physics
- Open quantum system
- Markov process
- Statistical physics
- Quantum
- Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry)
- Quantum dynamics
- Quantum mechanics
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