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We summarize our investigation of the extent to which the choice of internal clock influences the dynamics in quantum models of gravity. Firstly, at the classical level, we define an extension to the Hamilton-Jacobi theory of contact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-15 Przemyslaw Malkiewicz

Reversing a (forward) computation history means undoing the history. In concurrent systems, undoing the history is not performed in a deterministic way but in a causally consistent fashion, where states that are reached during a backward…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-18 Luca Cardelli , Cosimo Laneve

In time reversal acoustics experiments, a signal is emitted from a localized source, recorded at an array of receivers-transducers, time reversed, and finally re-emitted into the medium. A celebrated feature of time reversal experiments is…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guillaume Bal , Leonid Ryzhik

In the mathematical tradition, reversibility requires that the evolution of a dynamical system be a bijective function. In the context of graph rewriting, however, the evolution is not even a function, because it is not even deterministic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Pablo Arrighi , Marin Costes , Luidnel Maignan

Entropy creation rate is introduced for a system interacting with thermostats ({\it i.e.}, in the usual language, for a system subject to internal conservative forces interacting with ``external'' thermostats via conservative forces) and a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gallavotti

Within the context of quantum teleportation, a proposed intuitive model to explain bipartite entanglement describes the scheme as being the same qubit of information evolving along and against the flow of time of an external observer. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Laforest , J. Baugh , R. Laflamme

Quantum mechanics rests on the assumption that time is a classical variable. As such, classical time is assumed to be measurable with infinite accuracy. However, all real clocks are subject to quantum fluctuations, which leads to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Isidro , J. L. Gonzalez-Santander , P. Fernandez de Cordoba

Among existing subgrid scale models for large-eddy simulation (LES) some are time-reversible in the sense that the dynamics evolve backwards in time after a transformation $\bm u \rightarrow -\bm u$ at every point in space. In practice,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Le Fang , Wouter Bos , Liang Shao , Jean-Pierre Bertoglio

We consider a localized quantum system living in a curved spacetimes. By translating into this scenario the paradgmatic two-point measument scheme in quantum statistical mechanics we are able to prove a relativistic version of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 M. Basso , J. Maziero , L. C. Céleri

Hamiltonian trajectories are strictly time-reversible. Any time series of Hamiltonian coordinates {q} satisfying Hamilton's motion equations will likewise satisfy them when played "backwards", with the corresponding momenta changing signs :…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-12 Wm. G. Hoover , Carol G. Hoover

Time evolution operator in quantum mechanics can be changed into a statistical operator by a Wick rotation. This strict relation between statistical mechanics and quantum evolution can reveal deep results when the thermodynamic limit is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-06 Marco Frasca

In this report we discuss the organization of different levels of nature and the corresponding space-time structures by the consideration of a particular problem of time irreversibility. The fundamental time irreversibility problem consists…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 A. S. Trushechkin

The observed probabilities of quantum mechanics possess a time asymmetry which is based on the truism that a state must be prepared before an observable can be measured in it. While Hilbert space quantum theory cannot incorporate this arrow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arno R. Bohm , Raymond Scurek

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

Based on the hypothesis that the (non-reversible) arrow of time is intrinsic in any system, no matter how small, the consequences are discussed. Within the framework of local quantum physics it is shown how such a semi-group action of time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-22 Detlev Buchholz , Klaus Fredenhagen

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

Quantum mechanics still provides new unexpected effects when considering the transport of energy and information. Models of continuous time quantum walks, which implicitly use time-reversal symmetric Hamiltonians, have been intensely used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-23 Zoltan Zimboras , Mauro Faccin , Zoltan Kadar , James Whitfield , Ben Lanyon , Jacob Biamonte

Time of arrival in quantum mechanics is discussed in two versions: the classical axiomatic "time of arrival operator" introduced by J. Kijowski and the EEQT method. It is suggested that for free particles the two methods may lead to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Arkadiusz Jadczyk

We show that appropriate superpositions of motional states are a reference frame resource that enables breaking of time -reversal superselection so that two parties lacking knowledge about the other's direction of time can still…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-20 Gilad Gour , Barry C. Sanders , Peter S. Turner

The aim of this work is to review the concepts of time in quantum mechanics and general relativity to show their incompatibility. We show that the absolute character of Newtonian time is present in quantum mechanics and also partially in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alfredo Macias , Hernando Quevedo