Paolo Grigolini, Marco G. Pala, Luigi Palatella
Published 2000-07-20Version 1
We study the time evolution of a quantum system without classical counterpart, undergoing a process of entropy increase due to the environment influence. We show that if the environment-induced decoherence is interpreted in terms of wave-function collapses, a symbolic sequence can be generated. We prove that the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy of this sequence coincides with rate of von Neumann entropy increase.
Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures
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