2002/04/28 by Jerzy Stryla, Stryla, Jerzy
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0204160
12 pages, submitted to J. Math. Phys
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To describe stochastic quantum processes I propose an integral equation of Volterra type which is not generally transformable to any differential one. The process is a composition of ordinary quantum evolution which admits presence of a quantum bath and reductions to pure states. It is proved that generically solutions stabilize asymptotically for t→ +∞ to a universal limit - the projection onto the state with maximal available entropy. A number of typical methods of finding solutions of the equation are proposed.