Five Lectures On Dissipative Master Equations
  1 First Lecture: Basics   1.1 Physical Derivation of the Master Equation   1.2 Some Simple Implications   1.3 Steady State   1.4 Action to the Left   2 Second Lecture: Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of L   2.1 A Simple Case First   2.2 The General Case   3 Third Lecture: Completeness of the Damping Bases   3.1 Phase Space Functions   3.2 Completeness of the Eigenvectors of L   3.3 Positivity Conservation   3.4 Lindblad Form of Liouville Operators   4 Fourth Lecture: Quantum-Optical Applications   4.1 Periodically Driven Damped Oscillator   4.2 Conditional and Unconditional Evolution   4.3 Physical Signicance of Statistical Operators   5 Fifth Lecture: Statistics of Detected Atoms   5.1 Correlation Functions   5.2 Waiting Time Statistics   5.3 Counting Statistics 
Berthold-Georg Englert and Giovanna Morigi