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Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 We propose a new scenario of nonequilibirum multiverse. We quantified the potential landscape and the flux landscape for the multiverse. The potential landscape quantifies the weight of each universe. When the terminal vacuum with zero (flat) or negative
Hong Wang, Xinyu Li, Jin Wang
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The Generalized Second Law implies a Quantum Singularity Theorem
, 2016 The generalized second law can be used to prove a singularity theorem, by generalizing the notion of a trapped surface to quantum situations. Like Penrose's original singularity theorem, it implies that spacetime is null geodesically incomplete inside ...
Alcubierre M +39 more
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Decoherence, Chaos, and the Second Law
, 1994 We investigate implications of decoherence for quantum systems which are classically chaotic. We show that, in open systems, the rate of von Neumann entropy production quickly reaches an asymptotic value which is: (i) independent of the system ...
A. O. Caldeira +25 more
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Die Pfeile der geschichtlichen Zeit
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2002 So far, the domains of thermodynamics, evolution and historiography have rarely found a common, coherent platform. Following a recent wave of literature on the parallelism between cosmic and evolutionary history, the present article follows two basic ...
Karl H. Müller
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Physical Review Research, 2019 One of the stunning consequences of quantum correlations in thermodynamics is the reversal of the arrow of time, recently shown experimentally in Micadei et al. [Nat. Commun.
C. L. Latune +2 more
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On the nature of cosmological time [PDF]
, 2015 Time is a parameter playing a central role in our most fundamental modeling of natural laws. Relativity theory shows that the comparison of times measured by different clocks depends on their relative motions and on the strength of the gravitational ...
Hauret, Clémentine, Magain, Pierre
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Small and Simple Systems That Favor the Arrow of Time
EntropyThe 2nd law of thermodynamics yields an irreversible increase in entropy until thermal equilibrium is achieved. This irreversible increase is often assumed to require large and complex systems to emerge from the reversible microscopic laws of physics. We
Ralph V. Chamberlin
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The role of quantum measurement in stochastic thermodynamics
npj Quantum Information, 2017 Rebuilding quantum thermodynamics on quantum measurement Measuring a quantum system is an ultimately random operation. It induces a genuinely quantum time arrow, increasing the system’s entropy. But because it perturbs its state, quantum measurement also
Cyril Elouard +3 more
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The generic nature of the global and non-entropic arrow of time and the dual role of the energy–momentum tensor [PDF]
, 2004 Mario Castagnino, Olímpia Lombardi
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Memory Systems, the Epistemic Arrow of Time, and the Second Law
EntropyThe epistemic arrow of time is the fact that our knowledge of the past seems to be both of a different kind and more detailed than our knowledge of the future. Just like with the other arrows of time, it has often been speculated that the epistemic arrow
David H. Wolpert, Jens Kipper
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