From Eq. 24, it can be seen that the jump operator L = |0⟩⟨1| causes the population of state |1⟩ to decay with a rate of Γ, state |0⟩ to gain the population lost by state |1⟩, and state |1⟩ to decohere from every other state with a rate of Γ 2 . This is an important feature of the Lindblad dynamics.