On the distribution of the wave function for systems in thermal equilibrium

DOI10.1007/s10955-006-9210-zzbMath1119.82006arXivquant-ph/0309021OpenAlexW1985536767MaRDI QIDQ867728

Sheldon Goldstein, Roderich Tumulka, Joel L. Lebowitz, Nino Zanghì

Publication date: 16 February 2007

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309021

zbMATH Keywords

density matricesGaussian measurescanonical ensemble in quantum theoryprobability measures on Hilbert spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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