Entropic mechanics: towards a stochastic description of quantum mechanics

DOI10.1007/S10701-019-00315-6MaRDI QIDQ2286558zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Vitaly Vanchurin

Publication date 22 January 2020

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07369

zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsentropy productionemergent phenomena

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) General theory of random and stochastic dynamical systems (37H05) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25) Stochastic quantization (81S20) Quantum gates (81P65)

Abstract: We consider a stochastic process which is (a) described by a continuous-time Markov chain on only short time-scales and (b) constrained to conserve a number of hidden quantities on long time-scales. We assume that the transition matrix of the Markov chain is given and the conserved quantities are known to exist, but not explicitly given. To study the stochastic dynamics we propose to use the principle of stationary entropy production. Then the problem can be transformed into a variational problem for a suitably defined action and with time-dependent Lagrange multipliers. We show that the stochastic dynamics can be described by a Schrodinger equation, with Lagrange multipliers playing the role of phases, whenever (a) the transition matrix is symmetric or the detailed balance condition is satisfied, (b) the system is not too far from the equilibrium and (c) the number of the conserved quantities is large.

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