Evolution of Pure States into Mixed States
Abstract
In the formulation of Banks, Peskin and Susskind, we show that one can construct evolution equations for the quantum mechanical density matrix with operators which do not commute with hamiltonian which evolve pure states into mixed states, preserve the normalization and positivity of and conserve energy. Furthermore, it seems to be different from a quantum mechanical system with random sources.
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