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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

On homogeneous generalized master equations

Vladislav Čápek, Ulrich Kleinekathöfer

Published Jun 21, 2002• 1 citation
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Abstract

It is argued that the method recently proposed by Los (Los V F 2001 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34 6389) turning inhomogeneous time-convolution generalized master equations (GMEs) into homogeneous ones is problematic in the quantum case. It is also shown here that the proposed method is inapplicable to time-convolutionless GMEs.
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/35/26/401

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