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Pre-bangian origin of our entropy and time arrow [PDF]

open access: yesPhysics Letters B, 1999
I argue that, in the chaotic version of string cosmology proposed recently, classical and quantum effects generate, at the time of exit to radiation, the correct amount of entropy to saturate a Hubble (or holography) entropy bound (HEB) and to identify ...
Veneziano, G.
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Beyond the Arrow of Time: Can There Be a Relation between the Measurement of Entropy and Time? [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings, 2017
The general tendency of the entropy of an isolated to increase is considered to be directly linked to the direction of the flow of time. This raises the question whether a quantitative relation can be established such that a time interval can be measured
Ben Akih-Kumgeh
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Arrow(s) of Time without a Past Hypothesis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The paper discusses recent proposals by Carroll and Chen, as well as Barbour, Koslowski, and Mercati to explain the (thermodynamic) arrow of time without a Past Hypothesis, i.e., the assumption of a special (low-entropy) initial state of the universe ...
Lazarovici, Dustin, Reichert, Paula
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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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Wormholes and the thermodynamic arrow of time

open access: yesPhysical Review Research, 2020
In classical thermodynamics, heat cannot spontaneously pass from a colder system to a hotter system, which is called the thermodynamic arrow of time. However, if the initial states are entangled, the direction of the thermodynamic arrow of time may not ...
Zhuo-Yu Xian, Long Zhao
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How many universes are necessary for an ice cream to melt? [PDF]

open access: yesSerbian Astronomical Journal, 2003
We investigate a quantitative consequence of the Acausal-Anthropic approach to solving the long-standing puzzle of the thermo dynamical arrow of time.
Ćirković Milan M.
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Does a computer have an arrow of time? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In [Sch05a], it is argued that Boltzmann's intuition, that the psychological arrow of time is necessarily aligned with the thermodynamic arrow, is correct.
Owen J. E. Maroney   +31 more
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On Quantum Entropy

open access: yesEntropy, 2022
Quantum physics, despite its intrinsically probabilistic nature, lacks a definition of entropy fully accounting for the randomness of a quantum state. For example, von Neumann entropy quantifies only the incomplete specification of a quantum state and ...
Davi Geiger, Zvi M. Kedem
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Fluctuation, Dissipation and the Arrow of Time [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The recent development of the theory of fluctuation relations has led to new insights into the ever-lasting question of how irreversible behavior emerges from time-reversal symmetric microscopic dynamics.
Bochkov   +6 more
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Irreversibility of time in general relativity [PDF]

open access: yesИзвестия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Физика, 2022
Background and Objectives: The equations of classical dynamics of particles and waves admit solutions with the reverse flow of time. Therefore, it is generally assumed that classical dynamics does not reflect the irreversibility of time.
Tsoy, Valery Ivanovich
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