Göran Lindblad

Father of the Lindblad equation:

$$i\partial_t\rho=\mathcal{L}\rho$$

where $\mathcal{L}$, the Lindbladian, englobes the Hamiltonian and dissipative dynamics of a quantum system. As such, this generalizes Schrödinger's equation to situations that are very important in lossy systems (quantum optics, quantum information processing, etc.)

His webpage had a groovy background with the Dirac equation and Einstein's field equations. He was also offering to solve Schrödinger's equation with Matlab there!

Links

• On the generators of quantum dynamical semigroups. G. Lindblad in Commun. Math. Phys 48:119 (1976).
• Obituary in Physics Today.