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Purity is not eternal at the Planck scale

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-07-16 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

Theories with Planck-scale deformed symmetries exhibit quantum time evolution in which purity of the density matrix is not preserved. In particular we show that the non-trivial structure of momentum space of these models is reflected in a deformed action of translation generators on operators. Such action in the case of time translation generators leads to a Lindblad-like evolution equation for density matrices when expanded at leading order in the Planckian deformation parameter. This evolution equation is covariant under the deformed realization of Lorentz symmetries characterizing these models.

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@article{arxiv.1403.6457,
  title  = {Purity is not eternal at the Planck scale},
  author = {Michele Arzano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.6457},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages, no figures. v2 minor changes, references added

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