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Given a viably physical (isolated), quantum many body Hamiltonian, does an initial state of a superposition of energy eigenstates ever thermalize?
Given a viably physical, quantum many body Hamiltonian of a isolated system, if initially a state is prepared which is a superposition of energy eigenstates in an interval centered at E and E', not at ...
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Irreversibility as an artificial concept and relationship with quantum mechanics
In my statistical physics classes we are following the book Statistical physics of particles - by Mehren Kardar and we were viewing the derivation of the boltzmann equation and irreversibility . ...
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Is an interaction-free measurement an irreversible process?
From what I've understood from reading different online sources including PSE*, measurements in quantum mechanics are generally argued to be irreversible (at least, when a macroscopic measuring device ...
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Change in Shannon entropy of a quantum circuit of Hadamard gate and a loop
The following Q&A about reversible computing is available here. It has listed a number of practical scenarios where a reversible circuit can still be dissipating heat. Let's assume that none of ...
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Hawking radiation and reversibility
It's often said that, as long as the information that fell into a black hole comes out eventually in the Hawking radiation (by whatever means), pure states remain pure rather than evolving into mixed ...
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