Fifty Years of the GKLS Master Equation: Foundations and Early Developments

arXiv:2609.19404 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-16 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Comments: To be published in the special volume of OSID dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the GKLS master equation

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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Effective Hamiltonian — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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Gradient Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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Non-Markovian Dynamics — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
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