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Quantum theory of open systems represents a very important problem in quantum-statistical mechanics as it attempts to provide a natural route for reconciliation of non-unitary processes such as damping and dephasing or decoherence with the process of quantization [1, 2]. One starts with the conservative composite closed system consisting of the system of interest and its environment to which the standard rules of quantization are applied. The total system, comprising of the system of interest and its ambient environment, are evolved via a unitary evolution and then the environmental coordinates are eliminated to give a closed equation (reduced dynamics) for the dissipative system alone.
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Banerjee, S. (2018). Introduction. In: Open Quantum Systems. Texts and Readings in Physical Sciences, vol 20. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3182-4_1
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