Statistical mechanics from relational complex time with a pure state
Quantum Physics
2024-05-13 v1
Abstract
Thermodynamics and its quantum counterpart are traditionally described with statistical ensembles. Canonical typicality has related statistical mechanics for a system to ensembles of global energy eigen- states of system and its environment analyzing their cardinality. We show that the canonical density for a system emerges from a maximally entangled global state of system and environment through relational complex time evolution between system and environment without the need to maximize the entropy or to count states.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2405.06401,
title = {Statistical mechanics from relational complex time with a pure state},
author = {Sebastian Gemsheim and Jan M. Rost},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.06401},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
3 pages, accepted by PRD as a letter