Abstract We study a class of generic quantum Markov semigroups on the algebra of all bounded operators on a Hilbert space h arising from the stochastic limit of a discrete system with generic Hamiltonian HS , acting on h, interacting with a Gaussian, gauge invariant, reservoir. The self-adjoint operator HS determines a privileged orthonormal basis of h. These semigroups leave invariant diagonal...

The conservativity of a minimal quantum dynamical semigroup is proved whenever there exists a " reference " subharmonic operator bounded from below by the dissipative part of the infinitesimal generator. We discuss applications of this criteria in mathematical physics and quantum probability. 1. Introduction A quantum dynamical semigroup (q.d.s.) T = (T t) t≥0 on B(h), the Banach space of bound...

Convolution semigroups of states on a quantum group form the natural noncommutative analogue of convolution semigroups of probability measures on a locally compact group. Here we initiate a theory of weakly continuous convolution semigroups of functionals on a C∗bialgebra, the noncommutative counterpart of locally compact semigroup. On locally compact quantum groups we obtain a bijective corres...

Convolution semigroups of states on a quantum group form the natural noncommutative analogue of convolution semigroups of probability measures on a locally compact group. Here we initiate a theory of weakly continuous convolution semigroups of functionals on a C∗-bialgebra, the noncommutative counterpart of a locally compact semigroup. On locally compact quantum groups we obtain a bijective cor...

We study the Classical Probability analogue of the dilations of a quantum dynamical semigroup defined in Quantum Probability via quantum stochastic differential equations. Given a homogeneous Markov chain in continuous time in a finite state space E, we introduce a second system, an environment, and a deterministic invertible time-homogeneous global evolution of the system E with this environme...

Master equations in the Lindblad form describe evolution of open quantum systems that are completely positive and simultaneously have a semigroup property. We analyze the possibility to derive this type of master equations from an intrinsically discrete dynamics that is modelled as a sequence of collisions between a given quantum system (a qubit) with particles that form the environment. In ord...

The weighted semigroup algebra Mb (S, w) is studied via its identification with Mb (S) together with a weighted algebra product *w so that (Mb (S, w), *) is isometrically isomorphic to (Mb (S), *w). This identification enables us to study the relation between regularity and amenability of Mb (S, w) and Mb (S), and improve some old results from discrete to general case.

Many important C∗-algebras, such as AF-algebras, Cuntz-Krieger algebras, graph algebras and foliation C∗-algebras, are the C∗-algebras of r-discrete groupoids. These C∗-algebras are often associated with inverse semigroups through the C∗-algebra of the inverse semigroup [HR90] or through a crossed product construction as in Kumjian’s localization [Kum84]. Nica [Nic94] connects groupoid C∗-algeb...

For a quantum Markov semigroup T on the algebra B(h) with a faithful invariant state ρ, we can define an adjoint T̃ with respect to the scalar product determined by ρ. In this paper, we solve the open problems of characterising adjoints T̃ that are also a quantum Markov semigroup and satisfy the detailed balance condition in terms of the operators H,Lk in the Gorini Kossakowski Sudarshan Lindblad...