Systems with Many Particles

Walter Thirring
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Walter Thirring: University of Vienna, Institute for Theoretical Physics

Chapter 1 in A Course in Mathematical Physics, 1983, pp 1-44 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Macroscopic bodies act in an irreversible and deterministic manner in contrast with the reversible and indeterministic character of the underlying laws of quantum physics. How can the apparent contradiction be understood?

Keywords: Unitary Transformation; Recurrence Time; Weyl Algebra; Energy Shell; Inequivalent Representation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-7526-2_1

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