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Decoherence and Entropy in Complex Systems

Selected Lectures from DICE 2002

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  1. Hans-Thomas Elze
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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 633)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. An Overview

    • Hans-Thomas Elze
    Pages 3-5

  3. Introduction: The Relevance of Gravity for DICE

    • Claus Kiefer
    Pages 9-14

  4. Dynamics of Pure Shape, Relativity, and the Problem of Time

    • Julian Barbour
    Pages 15-35

  5. Dynamics without Time for Quantum Gravity: Covariant Hamiltonian Formalism and Hamilton-Jacobi Equation on the Space G

    • Carlo Rovelli
    Pages 36-62

  6. Some Recent Developments in the Decoherent Histories Approach to Quantum Theory

    • Jonathan Halliwell
    Pages 63-83

  7. Is There an Information-Loss Problem for Black Holes?

    • Claus Kiefer
    Pages 84-95

  8. Threshold Effects and Lorentz Symmetry

    • Orfeu Bertolami
    Pages 96-102

  9. Towards a Statistical Geometrodynamics

    • Ariel Caticha
    Pages 103-116

  10. Introduction: Quantum Theory and Beneath?

    • Hans-Thomas Elze
    Pages 119-124

  11. Probability of Intrinsic Time-Arrow from Information Loss

    • Lajos Diósi
    Pages 125-135

  12. Master and Langevin Equations for Interaction with Electromagnetic and Gravitational Environments

    • Zbigniew Haba, Hagen Kleinert
    Pages 136-150

  13. Dissipation, Emergent Quantization, and Quantum Fluctuations

    • Massimo Blasone, Petr Jizba, Giuseppe Vitiello
    Pages 151-163

  14. Chaotic Quantization: Maybe the Lord Plays Dice, After All?

    • Tamas S. Biró, Berndt Müller, Sergei G. Matinyan
    Pages 164-179

  15. Quantum Correlations in Classical Statistics

    • Christof Wetterich
    Pages 180-195

  16. Quantum Mechanics and Discrete Time from “Timeless” Classical Dynamics

    • Hans-Thomas Elze
    Pages 196-220

  17. Introduction: Experimental and Theoretical Status of Decoherence

    • Maria Carolina Nemes
    Pages 223-238

  18. Decoherence and Quantum Trajectories

    • Todd A. Brun
    Pages 239-252

  19. Decoherence in Discrete Quantum Walks

    • Viv Kendon, Ben Tregenna
    Pages 253-267

  20. Decoherence and Quantum-State Measurement in Quantum Optics

    • Luiz Davidovich
    Pages 268-286
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The contributions to this volume are based on selected lectures from the first international workshop on decoherence, information, complexity and entropy (DICE). The aim of this volume is to reflect the growing importance ot common concepts behind seemingly different fields such as quantum mechanics, general relativity and statistical physics in a form accessible to nonspecialist researchers. Many presentations include original results which are published here for the first time.

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"This book contains many fascinating thoughts on the junction of quantum mechanics, general relativity and statistical mechanics. The advantage one hopes from an interdisciplinary workshop is a pedagogical introduction. Since many of the contributors are not familiar with each others' work, they attempt to write in such a way that everyone can understand. I felt most of the authors adhered to this philosophy. It is also nice to see an index in a book of this type." (Contemporary Physics 2005, 46, page 145-146)

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