Open Quantum Systems II: The Markovian Approach

This volume is the second in a series of three volumes dedicated to the lecture notes of the summer school “Open Quantum Systems” which took place in the Institut Fourier in Grenoble, from June 16th to July 4th 2003. The contributions presented in thesevolumesarerevisedandexpandedversionsof thenotesprovidedtothestudents during the school. After the first volume, developing the Hamiltonian approach of open quantum systems, this second volume is dedicated to the Markovian approach. The third ...