Abstract
An analysis is made of the relaxation of ``multistate'' systems, i.e., systems with more than two quantum states or two different chemical species, for linearized processes described by the ``Master Equation'' of the theory of transport processes. These results are compared with those obtained from the analysis of two-state relaxation processes and the concept of ``relaxation time'' is discussed in this framework. A discussion is presented of the transformation of microscopic to macroscopic relaxation equations. The existence of periodic and/or aperiodic oscillatory solution of the linear multistate relaxation equation is investigated. It is shown that the multistate relaxation equations admit of aperiodic oscillatory solutions.
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