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Brownian motion refers to random dynamics of heavy particles suspended in a liquid or a gas, generated by their collisions with the constituents of the fluid around. This transport phenomenon is named after the botanist Robert Brown. In 1827, while he was looking through a microscope at pollen grains in water, he noted that the grains moved, but he was not able to determine the mechanisms that caused this motion.
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More generally, the bath can non-necessarily be initially in thermal stationary state of some dynamics.
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Gorini, Kossakowski and Sudarshan submitted their paper on March 19th 1975, and Lindblad one on 7th April 1975, about three weeks later. The former was published in May 1976, while the latter in June 1976.
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We acknowledge the Spanish Ministry MINECO (National Plan 15 Grant: FISICATEAMO No. FIS2016-79508-P, SEVERO OCHOA No. SEV-2015-0522, FPI), European Social Fund, Fundació Cellex, Generalitat de Catalunya (AGAUR Grant No. 2017 SGR 1341 and CERCA/Program), ERC AdG OSYRIS and NOQIA, EU FETPRO QUIC, and the National Science Centre, Poland-Symfonia Grant No. 2016/20/W/ST4/00314.
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Lampo, A., García March, M.Á., Lewenstein, M. (2019). Introduction. In: Quantum Brownian Motion Revisited. SpringerBriefs in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16804-9_1
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