Emergent quantum mechanics as a thermal ensemble
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Publication:2931900
DOI10.1142/S0219887814500686zbMATH Open1303.81101arXiv1304.6295OpenAlexW2963107342MaRDI QIDQ2931900FDOQ2931900
Authors: J. M. Isidro, Milton H. Perea, Pedro Fernández de Córdoba 
Publication date: 28 November 2014
Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: It has been argued that gravity acts dissipatively on quantum-mechanical systems, inducing thermal fluctuations that become indistinguishable from quantum fluctuations. This has led some authors to demand that some form of time irreversibility be incorporated into the formalism of quantum mechanics. As a tool towards this goal we propose a thermodynamical approach to quantum mechanics, based on Onsager's classical theory of irreversible processes and on Prigogine's nonunitary transformation theory. An entropy operator replaces the Hamiltonian as the generator of evolution. The canonically conjugate variable corresponding to the entropy is a dimensionless evolution parameter. Contrary to the Hamiltonian, the entropy operator is not a conserved Noether charge. Our construction succeeds in implementing gravitationally-induced irreversibility in the quantum theory.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.6295
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Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82B35)
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