The Thermodynamic Arrow-of-time and Quantum Mechanics

I give an explanation of the thermodynamic arrow-of-time (namely entropy increases with time) within a quantum mechanical framework. This entails giving a solution to the Loschmidt paradox, i.e. showing how an irreversible macro-dynamics can arise from a reversible micro-dynamics. I argue that, in a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maccone, Lorenzo
Other Authors: W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Extreme Quantum Information Theory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92300