Emergence and collapse of quantum mechanical superposition: Orthogonality of reversible dynamics and irreversible diffusion

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 389, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 4473-4484

  Grössing, Gerhard ^a   Fussy, Siegfried ^a   Mesa Pascasio, Johannes ^a   Schwabl, Herbert ^a  

^a Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies Vienna   (Austria)

Author keywords

Born's rule; Diffusion; Emergent quantum mechanics; Superposition principle

Indexed keywords

LASER BEAM EFFECTS; QUANTUM OPTICS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; VELOCITY; WAVE PACKETS;

BORN'S RULE; GAUSSIAN WAVE PACKETS; IRREVERSIBLE PROCESS; NON EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL SUPERPOSITION; SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT;

DIFFUSION;

EID: 77956172978     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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