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Completely Positive Dynamical Semigroups of N Level Systems

V. Gorini, A. Kossakowski, E. Sudarshan

1976.5.1JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS

DOI: 10.1063/1.522979

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Establishes the general form of the generator of completely positive dynamical semigroups for N-level quantum systems and derives explicit inequalities for a 2-level system.

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.

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GORINI, V.; KOSSAKOWSKI, A.; SUDARSHAN, E. Completely positive dynamical semigroups of n level systems. JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, 1976, 17: 821–825.