Can we explain thermodynamics by quantum decoherence?

DOI10.1016/S1355-2198(01)00029-6zbMATH Open1222.82023MaRDI QIDQ720452FDOQ720452

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

collapsequantum mechanicsdecoherencethermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Cited In (4)

• Quantum Decoherence and the Approach to Equilibrium
• The ``past hypothesis: not even false
• Quantum decoherence and the approach to equilibrium. II
• Local fluctuations and local observers in equilibrium statistical mechanics

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