{ "id": "quant-ph/9502010", "version": "v1", "published": "1995-02-14T08:44:14.000Z", "updated": "1995-02-14T08:44:14.000Z", "title": "INTRINSIC MECHANISM FOR ENTROPY CHANGE IN CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM EVOLUTION", "authors": [ "Eli Eisenberg", "Larry Horwitz" ], "comment": "20 pages. For more information or comments contact E. Eisenberg at eisenber@alon.cc.biu.ac.il (internet).", "journal": "Phys. Rev. A 52, 70 (1995).", "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.52.70", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "It is shown that the existence of a time operator in the Liouville space representation of both classical and quantum evolution provides a mechanism for effective entropy change of physical states. In particular, an initially effectively pure state can evolve under the usual unitary evolution to an effectively mixed state.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "1995-02-14T08:44:14.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "quantum evolution", "intrinsic mechanism", "usual unitary evolution", "liouville space representation", "effective entropy change" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "publisher": "APS", "journal": "Phys. Rev. A" }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 20, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 392828 } } }