Arrow of time in rigged Hilbert space quantum mechanics

International Journal of Theoretical Physics

Volumn 43, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 1675-1687

  Bishop, Robert C ^a,b  

^a Inst Grenzgebiete Psychol/P   (Germany)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrow of time; Irreversibility; Quantum mechanics; Rigged Hilbert space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347791415     PISSN: 00207748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:IJTP.0000048813.60909.8c     Document Type: Article

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