DISSIPATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS AND THE QUANTUM EVOLUTION OF A SPIN SYSTEM

CARL WOLF

Department of Physics, North Adams State College, North Adams, MA 01247, U. S. A.

Received 22 May 1997

By considering a retarded discrete time version of the Schrödinger equation, we discuss how such an equation can be used to describe the environmentally induced decay of a spin system when the environment has the general properties of having a continuous unbounded energy spectrum.

UDC 539.12
PACS 03.65

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