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Maxwell’s Demon in Quantum Mechanics

Entropy, 2020
Maxwell’s Demon is a thought experiment devised by J. C. Maxwell in 1867 in order to show that the Second Law of thermodynamics is not universal, since it has a counter-example. Since the Second Law is taken by many to provide an arrow of time, the
Orly Shenker, Meir Hemmo
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Cosmological Time, Entropy and Infinity

Entropy, 2017
Time is a parameter playing a central role in our most fundamental modelling of natural laws. Relativity theory shows that the comparison of times measured by different clocks depends on their relative motion and on the strength of the gravitational ...
Clémentine Hauret, Pierre Magain, Judith Biernaux   +2 more
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Where Was Past Low-Entropy?

Entropy, 2019
Where was the past low-entropy of the early universe located? Contrary to some popular answers, I argue that that the dominant source of low-entropy is the fact that a single degree of freedom, the scale factor, was not at equilibrium.
Carlo Rovelli
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Arrow of time across five centuries of classical music [PDF]

Physical Review Research, 2020
The concept of time series irreversibility -- the degree by which the statistics of signals are not invariant under time reversal -- naturally appears in non-equilibrium physics in stationary systems which operate away from equilibrium and produce ...
Alfredo González-Espinoza, Gustavo Mart'inez-Mekler, L. Lacasa   +2 more
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Deflation at Turnaround for Oscillatory Cosmology [PDF]

, 2006
It is suggested that dark energy in a brane world can help reconcile an infinitely cyclic cosmology with the second law of thermodynamics. A cyclic cosmology is described, in which dark energy with constant equation of state leads to a turnaround at ...
Baum, Lauris, Frampton, Paul H.
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Vacuum structure for expanding geometry [PDF]

, 1999
We consider gravitational wave modes in the FRW metrics in a de Sitter phase and show that the state space splits into many unitarily inequivalent representations of the canonical commutation relations.
Albrecht A, Alfinito E, Alhassid Y, Boyanowski D, Bratteli O, Celeghini E, De Filippo S, E Alfinito, Eboli O, Eboli O, Feshbach H, G Vitiello, Grishchuk L P, Hawking S W, Hawking S W, Hawking S W, Hawking S W, Johansson A E I, Lindblad G, Martellini M, Misner W, Ojima I, Penrose R, Perelomov A M, Prokopec T, R Manka, Sewell G L, Solomon A I, Takahashi Y, Umezawa H, Umezawa H, Vitiello G, Wald R M, Wald R M   +33 more
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Fidelity Mechanics: Analogues of the Four Thermodynamic Laws and Landauer’s Principle

Entropy, 2022
Fidelity mechanics is formalized as a framework for investigating critical phenomena in quantum many-body systems. Fidelity temperature is introduced for quantifying quantum fluctuations, which, together with fidelity entropy and fidelity internal energy,
Huan-Qiang Zhou, Qian-Qian Shi, Yan-Wei Dai   +2 more
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Black-Hole Uncertainty Entails an Intrinsic Time Arrow. a Note on the Hawking-Penrose Controversy [PDF]

, 1999
Any theory that states that the basic laws of physics are time-symmetric must be strictly deterministic. Only determinism enables time reversal of entropy increase. A contradiction therefore arises between two statements of Hawking.
't Hooft, Avshalom C. Elitzur, Dolev, Elitzur, Elitzur, Elitzur, Elitzur, Elitzur, Finkelstein, Ghirardi, Hawking, Hawking, Hawking, Hawking, Hawking, Hawking, Penrose, Penrose, Preskill, Price, Shahar Dolev, Unruh   +21 more
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Green and Kubo forge the arrow of time [PDF]

Molecular Physics
Transport theory describes the response of a macroscopic current to a thermodynamic force, thus producing entropy and apparently violating time-reversal symmetry.
Stefano Baroni
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About some Entropy Aspects of Dissipative Systems [PDF]

Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2006
This paper is aspiring to get a logical explanation on the entropy velocity (i.e. on the entropy acceleration) in a Universe “endowed” with a dissipative system.
Emil Dinga
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