Abstract
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 order to illustrate our approach we analyze in detail how the process of an exponential decay and the process of decoherence can be derived from a collision-like model in which particular collisions are described by SWAP and controlled-NOT interactions, respectively.
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