Vinay Ambegaokar, Aashish Clerk
Published 1999-07-27Version 1
The emergence of a direction of time in statistical mechanics from an underlying time-reversal-invariant dynamics is explained by examining a simple model. The manner in which time-reversal symmetry is preserved and the role of initial conditions are emphasized. An extension of the model to finite temperatures is also discussed.
Comments: 9 pages, 8eps figures. To appear in the theme issue of the American Journal of Physics on Statistical Physics
Journal: Am. J. Phys. 67, 1068 (1999)
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