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A Computer's Arrow of Time [PDF]

open access: yesEntropy, 2005
: Some researchers believe that the psychological or consciousness arrow of time is a consequence of the thermodynamic arrow. Some don't. As for many issues in this area, the disagreement revolves about fundamental and undebatable assumptions.
L. S. Schulman
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Population rate of quantum states and the reverse of the arrow of time

open access: yesNova Scientia, 2022
Recently it has been pointed out that an outstanding application of an IBM quantum computer is to reverse the arrow of time (Lesovik et al., 2019). It is explored such a possibility in a two qubits system coupled to a common structured reservoir at zero
Manuel Ávila Aoki   +1 more
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String theory and the arrow of time

open access: yesJournal of High Energy Physics, 2021
Time-like linear dilaton triggers, at the classical level, the creation of closed folded strings at an instant. We show that in cosmology these instant folded strings induce negative pressure at no energy cost.
Nissan Itzhaki
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The Contractual Cryptoeconomy: An Arrow of Time for Economics

open access: yesThe Journal of The British Blockchain Association, 2019
We consider the potential blockchains have for building a framework for all manner of contracts that can characterize an economy using the unifying idea of control over their duration. Such a contractual cryptoeconomy (CCE)
Prateek Goorha
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Length of Time’s Arrow

open access: yesPhysical Review Letters, 2008
An unresolved problem in physics is how the thermodynamic arrow of time arises from an underlying time reversible dynamics. We contribute to this issue by developing a measure of time-symmetry breaking, and by using the work fluctuation relations, we determine the time asymmetry of recent single molecule RNA unfolding experiments.
Feng, Edward H., Crooks, Gavin E.
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Discovering the Arrow of Time in Machine Learning

open access: yesInformation, 2021
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly useful as data grow in volume and accessibility. ML can perform tasks (e.g., categorisation, decision making, anomaly detection, etc.) through experience and without explicit instruction, even when the data are too ...
J. Kasmire, Anran Zhao
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Interventionism in Statistical Mechanics

open access: yesEntropy, 2012
I defend the idea that the fact that no system is entirely isolated (“Interventionism”) can be used to explain the successful use of the microcanonical distribution in statistical mechanics.
Stephen Leeds
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The Universal Arrow of Time [PDF]

open access: yesFoundations of Physics, 2012
Statistical physics cannot explain why a thermodynamic arrow of time exists, unless one postulates very special and unnatural initial conditions. Yet, we argue that statistical physics can explain why the thermodynamic arrow of time is universal, i.e., why the arrow points in the same direction everywhere.
Kupervasser, Oleg   +2 more
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Time, the Arrow of Time, and Quantum Mechanics

open access: yesFrontiers in Physics, 2018
It is brought forward that viable theories of the physical world that have no variable at all that can play the role of time, do not exist; some notion of time is one of the very first ingredients a candidate theory should possess.
Gerard 't Hooft
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Gravitational Entropy and Inflation

open access: yesEntropy, 2013
The main topic of this paper is a description of the generation of entropy at the end of the inflationary era. As a generalization of the present standard model of the Universe dominated by pressureless dust and a Lorentz invariant vacuum energy (LIVE ...
Øystein Elgarøy, Øyvind Grøn
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