Stochastic symmetry breaking of time reversal invariance
- 1 September 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 14 (9) , 1187-1189
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1666461
Abstract
An equation for the time evolution of the density matrix for a nonrelativistic quantum mechanical system is presented. It involves a Hamiltonian which contains a stochastic contribution. Before stochastic averaging is performed, it is shown that the density matrix equation is time reversal invariant, whereas after stochastic averaging is performed, it is shown that the averaged density matrix equation is not time reversal invariant.Keywords
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