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We expand the time reversal symmetry arguments of quantum mechanics, originally proposed by Wigner in the context of unitary dynamics, to contain situations including generalized measurements for monitored quantum systems. We propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Sreenath K. Manikandan , Andrew N. Jordan

In this article, we analyze three classes of time-reversal of a Markov process with Gaussian noise on a manifold. We first unveil a commutativity constraint for the most general of these time-reversals to be well defined. Then we give a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-09 Jérémy O'Byrne , Michael E. Cates

For decades, researchers have sought to understand how the irreversibility of the surrounding world emerges from the seemingly time symmetric, fundamental laws of physics. Quantum mechanics conjectured a clue that final irreversibility is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 A. V. Lebedev , V. M. Vinokur

The reversing symmetry group is considered in the setting of symbolic dynamics. While this group is generally too big to be analysed in detail, there are interesting cases with some form of rigidity where one can determine all symmetries…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Michael Baake , John Roberts , Reem Yassawi

Collapse models are modifications of quantum theory where the wave function is treated as physically real and the collapse of the wave function is a physical process. This appears to introduce a time reversal asymmetry into the dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-25 Daniel Bedingham , Owen Maroney

For a periodically shaken optical lattice, effective time-reversal is investigated numerically. For interacting ultra-cold atoms, the scheme of [J. Phys. B 45, 021002 (2012)] involves a quasi-instantaneous change of both the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-04 Christoph Weiss

The standard formulation of quantum theory assumes a predefined notion of time. This is a major obstacle in the search for a quantum theory of gravity, where the causal structure of space-time is expected to be dynamical and fundamentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-29 Ognyan Oreshkov , Nicolas J. Cerf

Time reversal symmetry is a fundamental property of many quantum mechanical systems. The relation between statistical physics and time reversal is subtle and not all statistical theories conserve this particular symmetry, most notably…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-05 M. Bonitz , M. Scharnke , N. Schlünzen

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

Time-reversal (TR) symmetry is crucial for understanding a wide range of physical phenomena, and plays a key role in constraining fundamental particle interactions and in classifying phases of quantum matter. In this work, we introduce an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-23 Kabir Khanna , Abhishek Kumar , Romain Vasseur , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

The complex Hilbert space of standard quantum mechanics may be treated as a real Hilbert space. The pure states of the complex theory become mixed states in the real formulation. It is then possible to generalize standard quantum mechanics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Myrheim

The parity operator $\cal P$ and time reversal operator $\cal T$ are two important operators in the quantum theory, in particular, in the $\cal PT$-symmetric quantum theory. By using the concrete forms of $\cal P$ and $\cal T$, we discuss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 Minyi Huang , Yu Yang , Junde Wu , Minhyung Cho

We survey results of a quarter century of work on computation by reversible general-purpose computers (in this setting Turing machines), and general reversible simulation of irreversible computations, with respect to energy-, time- and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Paul Vitanyi

We define a time-dependent extension of the quantum geometric tensor to describe the geometry of the time-parameter space for a quantum state, by considering small variations in both time and wave function parameters. Compared to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Bogar Díaz , Diego Gonzalez , Marcos J. Hernández , J. David Vergara

Using the recently proposed covariant framework of general relativistic stochastic mechanics and stochastic thermodynamics, we proved the detailed and integral fluctuation theorems in curved spacetime. The time-reversal transformation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Yifan Cai , Tao Wang , Liu Zhao

Together with the concept of reversibility, another relevant physical notion is time-symmetry, which expresses that there is no way of distinguishing between backward and forward time directions. This notion, found in physical theories, has…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-12-08 Andrés Moreira , Anahi Gajardo

A class of photoacoustic acquisition geometries in n-space is considered such that the spherical mean transform admits an exact filtered back projection reconstruction formula. The reconstruction is interpreted as a time reversion mirror…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Victor Palamodov

The reversing symmetry group is a well-studied extension of the symmetry group of a dynamical system, the latter being defined by the action of a single homeomorphism on a topological space. While it is traditionally considered in nonlinear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-07-17 Michael Baake

The recursion operators and symmetries of non-autonomous, (1+1)-dimensional integrable evolution equations are considered. It has been previously observed that the symmetries of the integrable evolution equations obtained through their…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 Metin Gurses , Atalay Karasu , Refik Turhan

$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum mechanics has been considered an important theoretical framework for understanding physical phenomena in $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric systems, with a number of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry related applications. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Da-Jian Zhang , Qing-hai Wang , Jiangbin Gong