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Phys. Rev. A 73, 064101 (2006) [3 pages]

Conserved current in Markovian open-quantum systems

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András Bodor
Department of the Physics of Complex Systems, Eötvös University; H-1117 Budapest, Hungary

Lajos Diósi*
Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, H-1525 Budapest 114, P.O. Box 49, Hungary

Received 30 March 2006; published 19 June 2006

We reexamine the Markovian approximation of local current in open quantum systems, discussed recently by Gebauer and Car. Our derivation is more transparent; the proof of the current conservation becomes explicit and easy.

© 2006 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.064101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.73.064101
PACS:
03.65.Yz

*Electronic address: diosi@rmki.kfki.hu; URL: www.rmki.kfki.hu/̃diosi