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Evolution of Pure States into Mixed States

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-02-03 v2

Abstract

In the formulation of Banks, Peskin and Susskind, we show that one can construct evolution equations for the quantum mechanical density matrix ρ\rho with operators which do not commute with hamiltonian which evolve pure states into mixed states, preserve the normalization and positivity of ρ\rho and conserve energy. Furthermore, it seems to be different from a quantum mechanical system with random sources.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9301082,
  title  = {Evolution of Pure States into Mixed States},
  author = {Jun Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9301082},
  year   = {2008}
}

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6 pages