Scattering theory for open quantum systems

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2006
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1179
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Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik
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Quantum systems which interact with their environment are often modeled by maximal dissipative operators or so-called Pseudo-Hamiltonians. In this paper the scattering theory for such open systems is considered. First it is assumed that a single maximal dissipative operator $A_D$ in a Hilbert space $sH$ is used to describe an open quantum system. In this case the minimal self-adjoint dilation $widetilde K$ of $A_D$ can be regarded as the Hamiltonian of a closed system which contains the open system $[A_D,sH]$, but since $widetilde K$ is necessarily not semibounded from below, this model is difficult to interpret from a physical point of view. In the second part of the paper an open quantum system is modeled with a family $[A(mu)]$ of maximal dissipative operators depending on energy $mu$, and it is shown that the open system can be embedded into a closed system where the Hamiltonian is semibounded. Surprisingly it turns out that the corresponding scattering matrix can be completely recovered from scattering matrices of single Pseudo-Hamiltonians as in the first part of the paper. The general results are applied to a class of Sturm-Liouville operators arising in dissipative and quantum transmitting Schrödinger-Poisson systems.

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scattering theory, open quantum system, maximal dissipative operator, pseudo-Hamiltonian, quasi-Hamiltonian, Lax-Phillips scattering, scattering matrix, characteristic function, boundary triplet, Weyl function, Sturm-Liouville operator
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Behrndt, J., Malamud, M. M., Neidhardt, H., & Exner, P. (2006). Scattering theory for open quantum systems (Vol. 1179). Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik.
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