Emergence from irreversibility
arXiv:1210.7785 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/442/1/012033
Abstract
The emergent nature of quantum mechanics is shown to follow from a precise correspondence with the classical theory of irreversible thermodynamics.
Talk based on arXiv:1206.4941 [math-ph] by some of the present authors (P. F. de C. and J.M.I.), presented by J.M.I. at the Sixth International Workshop DICE 2012: Spacetime-Matter-Quantum Mechanics: from the Planck scale to emergent phenomena (Castiglioncello, Italy, September 2012)