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Journal of Operator Theory

Ergodic quantum Markov semigroups and decoherence

Raffaella Carbone, E. Sasso, Veronica Umanità

Published Nov 1, 2014• 8 citations
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Abstract

We study the relationships between ergodicity and environment induced decoherence for Quantum Markov Semigroups on a von Neumann algebra. We show that these properties are equivalent when the set of fixed points is an algebra containing the maximal subalgebra on which the semigroup is authomorphic.
DOI
10.7900/jot.2013jan29.1992

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