No time asymmetry from quantum mechanics

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.70.4034MaRDI QIDQ4492185zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Don N. Page

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9304027

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99)

Abstract: With CPT-invariant initial conditions that commute with CPT-invariant final conditions, the respective probabilities (when defined) of a set of histories and its CPT reverse are equal, giving a CPT-symmetric universe. This leads me to question whether the asymmetry of the Gell-Mann--Hartle decoherence functional for ordinary quantum mechanics should be interpreted as an asymmetry of {it time} .

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Cited in

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• On the consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics.
• Time asymmetry in quantum mechanics: a retrodiction paradox
• Linearly Positive Histories: Probabilities for a Robust Family of Sequences of Quantum Events
• Probability, arrow of time and decoherence

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