Microscopic irreversibility
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Microscopic irreversibility
zbMATH Open document ID: 1060.82035
DOI: 10.1155/S1026022604310034
author: Karl Gustafson
published in: Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
publication date: 2005-03-21T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/124535
review text: Summary: First, I will recount the substance of several important conversations I had with Ilya Prigogine over the years. There is no doubt in my mind that Professor Prigogine firmly believed in the underlying stochasticity of the universe. Second, I will summarize my curiosity about the principle of detailed balance. In my opinion, so far it has always been put in by hand. Third, I will advance my own theory of microscopic irreversibility, that is, irreversibility at the quantum level. This involves new concepts of probability preference and probability violation. A manifestation of this irreversibility may be seen during emission of bound-free photons during field-matter interactions. Entropy increase is tied to radiation increase, and the notion of heat bath becomes light bath.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 82C03
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 37G99
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 81P05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 82C10
zbMATH DE Number: 2148587
MaRDI profile type: Publication
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2148587