Irreversibility from a Reversible Equation
Abstract
After a discussion on the state of local equilibrium with temperature inhomogeneity, comparing mixture state reprsentation in statistical mechanics and pure state representation in thermo field dynamics, a simple model is solved to show that a reversible equation of motion with the initial condition having inhomogeneous temperature can lead to irreversible, viz. diffusive, behaviour. Yet, the solution is time symmetric exhibiting diffusion both towards future and past.
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