Can we explain thermodynamics by quantum decoherence?

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00029-6MaRDI QIDQ720452zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Meir Hemmo, Orly R. Shenker

Publication date 15 October 2011

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

collapsequantum mechanicsdecoherencethermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Foundations of equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B03)

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