Decoherence and Entropy in Complex Systems: Selected Lectures from DICE 2002 / Edition 1

by Hans-Thomas Elze

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540206392
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	03/05/2004
Series:	Lecture Notes in Physics , #633
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	403
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Prologue.- Gravity and Cosmology - Classical and Quantum Aspects.- Quantum Mechanics in Between - Decoherence and Determinism.- Decoherence in Mesoscopic Systems.- Entropy, Chaos and Complexity.

Editorial Reviews

"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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