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Let me review in this chapter how dissipation can be dealt with in quantum mechanics. After general preparatory remarks in the first section, I shall focus on a particular example and show how a dissipative propagator can be approximated in a systematic way semiclassically. I shall use the same dissipation mechanism for dissipative quantum maps later on as a relaxation process, so that the propagator derived in this chapter will find an important application.
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(2001). Dissipation in Quantum Mechanics. In: Dissipative Quantum Chaos and Decoherence. Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, vol 172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-40916-5_4
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