Statistical mechanics of generally covariant quantum theories: a Boltzmann-like approach
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Statistical mechanics of generally covariant quantum theories: A Boltzmann-like approach
We study the possibility of applying statistical mechanics to generally covariant quantum theories with a vanishing Hamiltonian. We show that (under certain appropriate conditions) this makes sense, in spite of the absence of a notion of energy and external time. We consider a composite system formed by a large number of identical components, and apply Boltzmann’s ideas and the fundamental post...
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عنوان ژورنال: Classical and Quantum Gravity
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0264-9381,1361-6382
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/18/3/314