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On the Approach to Thermal Equilibrium of Macroscopic Quantum Systems
Sheldon Goldstein, Joel L. Lebowitz, Christian Mastrodonato +2
We consider an isolated, macroscopic quantum system. Let H be a micro-canonical "energy shell," i.e., a subspace of the system's Hilbert space spanned by the (finitely) many energy…
quant-ph2009★ 112 cited
Normal Typicality and von Neumann's Quantum Ergodic Theorem
Sheldon Goldstein, Joel L. Lebowitz, Christian Mastrodonato +2
We discuss the content and significance of John von Neumann's quantum ergodic theorem (QET) of 1929, a strong result arising from the mere mathematical structure of quantum mechani…