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We review some basic properties of the general collision operator as defined in our theory and its relation to the invariants of the motion of a large quantum system. The necessity of the dissipativity condition is shown for the possibility of kinetic description where the L · t-invariance of the von Neumann equation is broken. We illustrate this condition by a number of simple models where the collision operator can be calculated in a rigorous (non-perturbative) way.
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Prigogine, I., Grecos, A.P. (1973). Irreversibility and Dissipativity of Quantum Systems. In: Haken, H., Wagner, M. (eds) Cooperative Phenomena. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86003-4_32
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