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arXiv:quant-ph/9806093 · Physical Review A

Reconstruction of Liouvillian superoperators

Vladimír Bužek

Published Sep 1, 1998• 37 citations
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Abstract

We show how to determine (reconstruct) a master equation governing the time evolution of an open quantum system. We present a general algorithm for the reconstruction of the corresponding Liouvillian superoperators. The dynamics of a two-level atom in various environments is discussed in detail.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.58.1723

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