Electronic Resource
College Park, Md.
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Journal of Mathematical Physics
36 (1995), S. 2593-2604
ISSN:
1089-7658
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Mathematics
,
Physics
Notes:
The exponential decay (or growth) of resonances provides an arrow of time which is described as the semigroup time evolution of Gamow vector in a new formulation of quantum mechanics. Another direction of time follows from the fact that a state must first be prepared before observables can be measured in it. Applied to scattering experiments, this produces another quantum mechanical arrow of time. The mathematical statements of these two arrows of time are shown to be equivalent. If the semigroup arrow is interpreted as microphysical irreversibility and if the arrow of time from the prepared in-state to its effect on the detector of a scattering experiment is interpreted as causality, then the equivalence of their mathematical statements implies that causality and irreversibility are interrelated. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.531053
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