Reinvigorated by advances and insights the quantum theory of irreversible processes has recently attracted growing attention. This volume introduces the very ba

Reinvigorated by advances and insights the quantum theory of irreversible processes has recently attracted growing attention. This volume introduces the very ba

In this text the authors develop quantum dynamics of open systems for a wide class of irreversible processes starting from the concept of completely positive se

Provides a graduate-level introduction to the theory of semigroups of operators.