  We study the temporal evolution of quantum mechanical fermionic particles
exhibiting one bound state within a one-dimensional attractive square-well
potential in a heat bath of bosonic particles. For this open quantum system we
formulate the non-equilibrium Kadanoff-Baym equations for the system particles
by taking the interactions to be elastic 2-2 scatterings with the heat-bath
particles. The corresponding spatially imhomogeneous integro-differential
equations for the one-particle Greens's function are solved numerically. We
demonstrate how the system particles equilibrate and thermalize with the heat
bath and how the off-diagonal elements of the density matrix, expressed in the
one-particle energy eigenbasis, decohere, so that only the diagonal entries,
i.e. the occupation numbers, survive. In addition, the time evolution of the
(retarded) Green's function also determines the spectral properties of the
various one-particle quantum states.
