The second law as a selection principle: The microscopic theory of dissipative processes in quantum systems

DOI10.1073/pnas.80.14.4590zbMath0511.60099OpenAlexW2001808017WikidataQ37343736 ScholiaQ37343736MaRDI QIDQ4748960

Claude George, Ilya Prigogine

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.80.14.4590

zbMATH Keywords

entropysecond law of thermodynamicsinteracting fieldssuperposition principle of quantum mechanicssymmetry-breaking selection principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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