2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/88869The effects of decoherence for quantum system coupled with a bosonic field are investigated. An application of the stochastic golden rule shows that in the stochastic limit the dynamics of such a system is described by a quantum stochastic differential equation. The corresponding master equation describes convergence of a system to equilibrium. In particular it predicts exponential damping for off-diagonal matrix elements of the system density matrix, moreover these elements for a generic system will decay at least as \exp(-tN{kT\over\hbar}), where N is a number of particles in the system. As an application of the described technique a derivation from first principles (i.e. starting from a Hamiltonian description) of a quantum extension of the Glauber dynamics for systems of spins is given.LaTeX 2.09, 21 pagesQuantum Physicstext