3 papers
quant-ph2020
Autonomous Temporal Probability Concentration: Clockworks and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Emanuel Schwarzhans, Maximilian P. E. Lock, Paul Erker +2
According to thermodynamics, the inevitable increase of entropy allows the past to be distinguished from the future. From this perspective, any clock must incorporate an irreversib…
quant-ph2019
Universal quantum modifications to general relativistic time dilation in delocalised clocks
Shishir Khandelwal, Maximilian P. E. Lock, Mischa P. Woods
The theory of relativity associates a proper time with each moving object via its world line. In quantum theory however, such well-defined trajectories are forbidden. After introdu…
quant-ph2019
Quantum and classical effects in a light-clock falling in Schwarzschild geometry
Maximilian P. E. Lock, Ivette Fuentes
Quantum theory and relativity offer different conceptions of time. To explore the conflict between them, we study a quantum version of the light-clock commonly used to illustrate r…