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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Dissipative dynamics for quantum spin systems on a lattice

Adam W Majewski, Robert Olkiewicz, Bogusław Zegarliński

Published Feb 27, 1998• 24 citations
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Abstract

We show that for a large class of interactions there exist translation-invariant dissipative dynamics which satisfy the detailed balance condition (in the associated noncommutative symmetric space), which do not commute with Hamiltonian dynamics and have exponential decay to equilibrium in the high-temperature region.
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/31/8/015

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