Role of correlations in the thermalization of quantum systems

We investigate the equilibration and thermalization properties of quantum systems interacting with a finite-dimensional environment. By exploiting the concept of time-averaged states, we introduce a completely positive map which allows us to describe in a quantitative way the dependence of the equil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: A Smirne, E-M Laine, H-P Breuer, J Piilo, B Vacchini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2012-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/14/11/113034