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As you know, all possible information for an isolated system is obtained via solutions to the Schrodinger equation. This is standard many-body physics.
by 11101010001100 2y ago
As you know, all possible information for an isolated system is obtained via solutions to the Schrodinger equation. This is standard many-body physics.
- lisper 2y agoWell, yeah, but that seems like a vacuous observation to me. In order to find solutions to the SE you have to know the initial conditions. How are you going to obtain those for an isolated system? You haven't solved the problem, you have just pushed it backwards in time.
- 11101010001100 2y agoThermalization (excluding systems which exhibit many body localization and the like) will occur regardless of initial conditions.
- lisper 2y agoThat is manifestly untrue because the SE is time-reversible. That is the whole problem.
- 11101010001100 2y agoYes, and at the same time, the statistics of the system can still satisfy thermalization.