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Environment induced time arrow and the Closed Time Path method

Year: 2013

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: It is shown in the framework of a harmonic system that the thermodynamical time arrow is induced by the environmental initial conditions in a manner similar to spontaneous symmetry breaking. The Closed Time Path formalism is introduced in classical mechanics to handle Green functions for initial condition problems by the action principle, in a systematic manner. The application of this scheme for quantum systems shows the common dynamical origin of the thermodynamical and the quantum time arrows. It is furthermore conjectured that the quantum-classical transition is strongly coupled.

Source: Journal of Physics Conference Series

DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/442/1/012072

Author: Janos Polonyi

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Université de Strasbourg

Language: English

Topic: Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Subfield: Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2079219941

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Cites: 28

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