Description of isolated macroscopic systems inside quantum mechanics (Q5942384)

For an isolated macrosystem classical state parameters (like mean velocity, temperature or chemical potential) are introduced as representatives of concrete preparation procedures of Gibbs-type state. A statistical operator is constructed as a solution of the Liouville-von Neumann equation and compared with Zubarev's non-equilibrium statistical operator [\textit{D. N. Zubarev} et al. ``Statistical mechanics of nonequilibrium processes, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin (1996; Zbl 0890.00008)].