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Quantum Central Limit Theorems, Emergence of Classicality and Time-Dependent Differential Entropy
We derive some quantum central limit theorems for the expectation values of macroscopically coarse-grained observables, which are functions of coarse-grained Hermitian operators consisting of non-commuting variables. Thanks to the Hermiticity constraints, we obtain positive-definite distributions fo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10137635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37190387 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e25040600 |
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description | We derive some quantum central limit theorems for the expectation values of macroscopically coarse-grained observables, which are functions of coarse-grained Hermitian operators consisting of non-commuting variables. Thanks to the Hermiticity constraints, we obtain positive-definite distributions for the expectation values of observables. These probability distributions open some pathway for the emergence of classical behaviours in the limit of an infinitely large number of identical and non-interacting quantum constituents. This is in contradistinction to other mechanisms of classicality emergence due to environmental decoherence and consistent histories. The probability distributions thus derived also enable us to evaluate the non-trivial time-dependence of certain differential entropies. |
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spelling | pubmed-101376352023-04-28 Quantum Central Limit Theorems, Emergence of Classicality and Time-Dependent Differential Entropy Kieu, Tien D. Entropy (Basel) Article We derive some quantum central limit theorems for the expectation values of macroscopically coarse-grained observables, which are functions of coarse-grained Hermitian operators consisting of non-commuting variables. Thanks to the Hermiticity constraints, we obtain positive-definite distributions for the expectation values of observables. These probability distributions open some pathway for the emergence of classical behaviours in the limit of an infinitely large number of identical and non-interacting quantum constituents. This is in contradistinction to other mechanisms of classicality emergence due to environmental decoherence and consistent histories. The probability distributions thus derived also enable us to evaluate the non-trivial time-dependence of certain differential entropies. MDPI 2023-04-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10137635/ /pubmed/37190387 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e25040600 Text en © 2023 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kieu, Tien D. Quantum Central Limit Theorems, Emergence of Classicality and Time-Dependent Differential Entropy |
title | Quantum Central Limit Theorems, Emergence of Classicality and Time-Dependent Differential Entropy |
title_full | Quantum Central Limit Theorems, Emergence of Classicality and Time-Dependent Differential Entropy |
title_fullStr | Quantum Central Limit Theorems, Emergence of Classicality and Time-Dependent Differential Entropy |
title_full_unstemmed | Quantum Central Limit Theorems, Emergence of Classicality and Time-Dependent Differential Entropy |
title_short | Quantum Central Limit Theorems, Emergence of Classicality and Time-Dependent Differential Entropy |
title_sort | quantum central limit theorems, emergence of classicality and time-dependent differential entropy |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10137635/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37190387 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e25040600 |
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