Microphysical irreversibilityand time asymmetric quantum mechanics

Advances in Chemical Physics

Volumn 122, Issue , 2002, Pages 301-320

  Bohm, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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