6 papers
Thermal Vacuum Cosmology Explains Hubble Tension
Robert Alicki
It is argued that the previously proposed modification of the standard (flat) inflationary model in which cosmological constant is replaced by thermal energy of expanding v…
Thermal Vacuum Model for Cosmology without Inflaton
Robert Alicki
The previously proposed modification of the standard (flat) inflationary model in which the inflaton field(s) and ``dark energy" are replaced by the vacum in expanding Frie…
Electron transport through mesoscopic junctions revisited
Robert Alicki
Theoretical foundations of electron transport in mesoscopic systems, based on Landauer theory, Master equations or Onsager linear thermodynamics, are revisited to show that the non…
The irreversible relaxation of inflation
Robert Alicki, Gabriela Barenboim, Alejandro Jenkins
Based on the results of a previous analysis of the Markovian master equation for the irreversible evolution of an open system embedded in de Sitter space, we include in the cosmolo…
Comment on " Second Law of Thermodynamics without Einstein Relation'', arXiv:2405.17142
Robert Alicki
It is argued the the idea of a single temperature-like variable, introduced in [1], which enters a generalized second law for Markovian open system in non-equilibrium environment i…
Corrections to the Hamiltonian induced by finite-strength coupling to the environment
Marcin Åobejko, Marek Winczewski, Gerardo Suárez +2
If a quantum system interacts with the environment, then the Hamiltonian acquires a correction known as the Lamb-shift term. There are two other corrections to the Hamiltonian, rel…