Irreversible Quantum Dynamics (Hardcover)

From the contents: Quantum Theory of Irreversibility: Open Systems and Continuum Mechanics.- Selected Aspects of Markovian and Non-Markovian Quantum Master Equations.- Aspects of Open Quantum Dynamics.- Concepts and Methods in the Theory of Open Quantum Systems.- Decoherence-Free Subspaces and Subsystems.- Controlled Quantum Open Systems.- Three Different Manifestations of the Quantum Zeno Effect.- Progressive Decoherence and Total Environmental Disentanglement.- Dynamics of Dissipative Quantum Systems: From Path Integrals to Master Equations.- Quantum Entropies in a Classical Context.- Irreversibility and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.- An Attempt at Relativistic Spontaneous Localization Theory.- The Quantum Jump Approach and Quantum Trajectories.- Irreversibility, Resonances and Rigged Hilbert Spaces.- Markovian Master Equations and Resonances in Quantum Open Systems.- A New Topology for an Axoim of Quantum Mechanics.- The Importance of Boundary Conditions in Quantum Mechanics.- Time Asymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Relativistic Resonances.- Irreversibility in the Framework of Hermitian and Non-Hermitian Treatments of Resonance States.