Hans-Thomas Elze (auth.), Hans-Thomas Elze (eds.)3540206396, 9783540206392
The contributions to this volume are based on selected lectures from the first international workshop on decoherence, information, complexity and entropy (DICE). These contributions reflect and acknowledge the growing importance of common concepts behind seemingly different fields such as quantum mechanics, general relativity and statistical physics in a form accessible to nonspecialist researchers. Many of the presentations include original results, which are published here for the first time.
Table of contents :
An Overview….Pages 3-5
Introduction: The Relevance of Gravity for DICE….Pages 9-14
Dynamics of Pure Shape, Relativity, and the Problem of Time….Pages 15-35
Dynamics without Time for Quantum Gravity: Covariant Hamiltonian Formalism and Hamilton-Jacobi Equation on the Space G….Pages 36-62
Some Recent Developments in the Decoherent Histories Approach to Quantum Theory….Pages 63-83
Is There an Information-Loss Problem for Black Holes?….Pages 84-95
Threshold Effects and Lorentz Symmetry….Pages 96-102
Towards a Statistical Geometrodynamics….Pages 103-116
Introduction: Quantum Theory and Beneath?….Pages 119-124
Probability of Intrinsic Time-Arrow from Information Loss….Pages 125-135
Master and Langevin Equations for Interaction with Electromagnetic and Gravitational Environments….Pages 136-150
Dissipation, Emergent Quantization, and Quantum Fluctuations….Pages 151-163
Chaotic Quantization: Maybe the Lord Plays Dice, After All?….Pages 164-179
Quantum Correlations in Classical Statistics….Pages 180-195
Quantum Mechanics and Discrete Time from “Timeless” Classical Dynamics….Pages 196-220
Introduction: Experimental and Theoretical Status of Decoherence….Pages 223-238
Decoherence and Quantum Trajectories….Pages 239-252
Decoherence in Discrete Quantum Walks….Pages 253-267
Decoherence and Quantum-State Measurement in Quantum Optics….Pages 268-286
The Structure of the Vacuum and the Photon Number….Pages 287-295
On the Possibility of Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems with Application to Quantum Computing….Pages 296-318
Introduction: From Efficient Quantum Computation to Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics….Pages 321-326
Uncertainty Domains Associatedwith Time Limited Perceptual Tasks: Fuzzy Overlaps or Quantum Entanglement?….Pages 327-340
Measurement and Information Extraction in Complex Dynamics Quantum Computation….Pages 341-348
Spin Glasses: Still Complex after All These Years?….Pages 349-361
Information Theory and Generalized Statistics….Pages 362-376
Generalization of Boltzmann Equilibration Dynamics….Pages 377-384
On the Emergence of Nonextensivity at the Edge of Quantum Chaos….Pages 385-397
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