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The higher than classical efficiency exhibited by some quantum algorithms is here ascribed to their non-mechanistic character, which becomes evident by joining the notions of entanglement and quantum measurement. Measurement analogically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Castagnoli , Dalida Monti

If one introduces causality into quantum cosmology, then the prescription for the no-boundary universe should be revised. We show that the thermodymanic arrow of time associated with the perturbation modes should be reversed at the maximum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Wu Zhong Chao

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. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Avshalom C. Elitzur , Shahar Dolev

Physical laws for elementary particles can be described by the quantum dynamics equation given a Hamiltonian. The solution are probability amplitudes in Hilbert space that evolve over time. A probability density function over position and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Davi Geiger , Zvi M. Kedem

A quantum algorithm is a set of instructions for a quantum computer, however, unlike algorithms in classical computer science their results cannot be guaranteed. A quantum system can undergo two types of operation, measurement and quantum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-30 Eva Borbely

Testable predictions of quantum mechanics are invariant under time reversal. But the change of the quantum state in time is not so, neither in the collapse nor in the no-collapse interpretations of the theory. This fact challenges the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Carlo Rovelli

We analyze the problem of reconstructing an unknown quantum state of a multipartite system from repeated measurements of local observables. In particular, via a system-theoretic observability analysis, we show that, even when the initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Marco Peruzzo , Tommaso Grigoletto , Francesco Ticozzi

We present a generic way of thinking about time machines from the view of a far away observer. In this model the universe consists of three (or more) regions: One containing the entrance of the time machine, another the exit and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Antonsen , Karsten Bormann

One of the stunning consequences of quantum correlations in thermodynamics is the reversal of the arrow of time, recently shown experimentally in [K. Micadei, et al., Nat. Commun. 10:2456 (2019)], and manifesting itself by a reversal of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-13 Camille L. Latune , Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

This paper is a natural continuation of our previous paper arXiv:1011.4173 . We illustrated earlier that in classical Hamilton mechanics, for overwhelming majority of real chaotic macroscopic systems, alignment of their thermodynamic time…

General Physics · Physics 2013-07-15 Oleg Kupervasser

New status in quantum mechanics is connected with recent achievements in the inverse problem. With its help instead of about ten exactly solvable models which serve as a basis of the contemporary education there are infinite (!) number,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. N. Zakhariev , V. M. Chabanov

A quantum spin system is discussed, where a heat flow between infinite reservoirs takes place in a finite region. A time dependent force may also be acting. Our analysis is based on a simple technical assumption concerning the time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Ruelle

Active matter encompasses systems whose individual consituents dissipate energy to exert propelling forces on their environment. This rapidly developing field harbors a dynamical phenomenology with no counterpart in passive systems. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-19 Jérémy O'Byrne , Yariv Kafri , Julien Tailleur , Frédéric van Wijland

In the statistical description of dynamical systems, an indication of the irreversibility of a given state change is given geometrically by means of a (pre-)ordering of state pairs. Reversible state changes of classical and quantum systems…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 P. Busch

There is a relation between the irreversibility of thermodynamic processes as expressed by the breaking of time-reversal symmetry, and the entropy production in such processes. We explain on an elementary mathematical level the relations…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Maes , K. Netocny

We provide a dynamical proof of the second law of thermodynamics, along the lines of an argument of Penrose and Gibbs, making crucial use of the upper semicontinuity of the mean entropy proved by Robinson and Ruelle and Lanford and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Walter F. Wreszinski

Time can be defined as the duration between events. It is irreversible. When used as a variable in quantifying the changing properties of matter, this irreversibility of time is incompatible with Newton's deterministic mechanics and with…

chao-dyn · Physics 2007-05-23 X. de Hemptinne

We report on the use of the dCRAB optimal control algorithm to realize time-reversal procedures for the implementation of quantum undo operations, to be applied in quantum technology contexts ranging from quantum computing to quantum…

It is demonstrated that, making minimal changes in ordinary quantum mechanics, a reasonable irreversible quantum mechanics can be obtained. This theory has a more general spectral decompositions, with eigenvectors corresponding to unstable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Castagnino , Roberto Laura

We know that space and time are treated almost equally in classical physics, but we also know that this is not the case for quantum mechanics. A quantum description of both space and time is important to really understand the quantum nature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Ngo Phuc Duc Loc