Are there recommended textbook or good intro-reference to explain with complete stretch of [Kossakowski–Lindblad equation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindblad_equation) especially how is the idea to derive it from ground?


$$\dot\rho=-{i\over\hbar}[H,\rho]+\sum\_{n,m = 1}^{N^2-1} h\_{n,m}\big(L\_n\rho L\_m^\dagger-\frac{1}{2}\left(\rho L\_m^\dagger L\_n + L\_m^\dagger L\_n\rho\right)\big).$$


And how does it look like for the steady solutions.



Reference to complete derivation of Kossakowski–Lindblad equation and its steady solutions
It seems the following two articles <http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.2122> (A simple derivation of the Lindblad equation, by Carlos Alexandre Brasil, Felipe Fernandes Fanchini, Reginaldo de Jesus Napolitano) and <http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.2016> (Simple Derivation of the Lindblad Equation, by Philip Pearle. The published version is <http://iopscience.iop.org/0143-0807/33/4/805/>) are quite good as an introduction to the subject.


