Extremely quick thermalization in a macroscopic quantum system for a typical nonequilibrium subspace

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 17, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Goldstein, Sheldon ^a   Hara, Takashi ^b   Tasaki, Hal ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GAKUSHUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Boltzmann time; quick thermalization; typical nonequilibrium subspace

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM OPTICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BOLTZMANN; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM; MACROSCOPIC SYSTEMS; MICROSCOPIC DYNAMICS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUMS; THERMALIZATION; TIME REVERSIBILITIES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84930672098     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/17/4/045002     Document Type: Article

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