Can we explain thermodynamics by quantum decoherence?

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00029-6zbMath1222.82023MaRDI QIDQ720452

Orly R. Shenker, Meir Hemmo

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

collapsedecoherencethermodynamicsquantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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