Quantum Open Systems and Measurements
1 Quantum Measurements and Decoherence: The Pointer Basis
2. Decoherence as Non-Reversibility: Markovian and Non-Markovian Coarse-Grained Evolution
3. Quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno Effects
4. Master Equations
5. Protection from Decoherence:
a. Decoherence Free subspaces
b. Dynamical Control of Decoherence
6. Many-body decoherence and superradiance
a. Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) of dipole-dipole interactions and collective radiation: master equation and Heisenberg-Langevin formulations
b. Dicke superradiance
c. Driven dissipative systems: Dicke phase transition, entanglement and dissipative Ising models
7. Control of Non-Markovian Thermodynamic Processes
a. Impulsive Perturbations and Measurements
b. Post- Measurement Heating and Cooling
8. The Principles of Thermodynamics for Quantum Systems
a. Heat currents
b. Entropy production
9. Quantum Heat Machines
a. Work and Heat in Quantized Setups
b. Refrigeration in Quantized Setups
c. Quantum bath purification.
10. Work-Information Relation
a. Maxwell’s Demon.
b. The Landauer Bound in Quantum Open Systems.