Overview
- Provides new foundational perspective on open quantum systems
- Offers a dynamical map approach to reduced dynamics
- Presents the topic in a highly readable way for graduate students and researchers
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Keywords
- quantum mechanics
- foundations of quantum mechanics
- open quantum systems
- non-Markovian dynamics
- quantum dissipation
- decoherence
- quantum measurement
- semigroup dynamics
- quantum reduced dynamics
- quantum stochastic processes
- Projection operator techniques
- POVM
About this book
The proposed book is a bridge between the foundations of quantum mechanics and the theory of open quantum systems. The treatment of open quantum systems is a rapidly growing subject, of interest to an ever-increasing number of scientists. The main focus is on overcoming the idealization of perfect isolation of a quantum system, so as to allow for a more realistic treatment and to provide the relevant background for the development of quantum technologies. The book is addressed to students and researchers in the field of open quantum systems and more generally quantum mechanics, a wide community of physicists, mathematicians, and chemists. It is devised both to enter the field and to prepare a series of lectures or a one-semester course on the topic.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bassano Vacchini is a theoretical physicist, currently working as full professor in the Physics Department at the University of Milan. His research started in the field of foundations of quantum mechanics and later moved to the theoretical treatment of open quantum systems. The outline of this book reflects this experience, which gives the book its peculiar twist.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Open Quantum Systems
Book Subtitle: Foundations and Theory
Authors: Bassano Vacchini
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58217-2Due: 30 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-58220-2Due: 30 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-58218-9Due: 30 July 2024
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 190
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations