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Complete positivity and the neutral kaon system

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica, Università di Trieste, and I.N.F.N., Sezione di Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, 34100 Trieste, Italy
  2. I.N.F.N., Sezione di Trieste, Strada Costiera 11, 34100 Trieste, Italy

Abstract

New experiments on neutral K-mesons might turn out to be promising tests of the hypothesis of Complete Positivity in the physics of open quantum systems. In particular, a consistent dynamical description of correlated neutral kaons seems to ask for Complete Positivity.

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Banach Center Publications
1998/43/1
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Pages:
71-85
Main language of publication
English
Published
1998
Exact and natural sciences