Abstract
Quantum open systems are described in the Markovian limit by master equations in Lindblad form. I argue that common “quantum jump” techniques, which solve the master equation by unraveling its evolution into stochastic trajectories in Hilbert space, correspond closely to a particular set of decoherent histories. This is illustrated by a simple model of a photon counting experiment.
- Received 24 June 1996
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1833
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