Reversibility and Irreversibility within the Quantum Formalism
| dc.creator | Jacobs, Tim | |
| dc.creator | Maes, Christian | |
| dc.date | 2005-08-04 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:13:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:13:18Z | |
| dc.description | The discussion on time-reversal in quantum mechanics exists at least since Wigner's ``Uber die Operation der Zeitumkehr in der Quantenmechanik'' paper in 1932. If and how the dynamics of the quantum world is time-reversible has been the subject of many controversies. Some have seen quantum mechanics as fundamentally time-irreversible, see for example von Neumann, and some have seen in that the ultimate cause of time's arrow and second law behavior. In his best-selling book ``The Emperor's New Mind'', Roger Penrose argues similarly and concludes that ``our sought-for quantum gravity must be a time-asymmetric theory'' [p.351]. Not so long ago, we read yet about another project in Physicalia 26: to extend quantum mechanics into new fundamentally irreversible equations, thus proposing a new theory giving ``... une description fondamentale irreversible de tout systeme physique''. | |
| dc.description | 16 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508041 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508041 | |
| dc.identifier | Physicalia Mag. 27 (2005), 119-130 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/93059 | |
| dc.subject | Quantum Physics | |
| dc.title | Reversibility and Irreversibility within the Quantum Formalism | |
| dc.type | text |