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LAST-MODIFIED:20121116T203436Z
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URL:http://physics.bu.edu/internal/events/show/661
SUMMARY:Pure state quantum statistical mechanics 
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Christian Gogolin\, University of Bristol\n\nPart of 
	the Condensed Matter Theory Seminar Series.\n\nAbstract:\n\nWhy do closed m
	acroscopic systems equilibrate and thermalize? How can we justify the metho
	ds of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics from a microscopic theory? W
	hich mechanisms lead to the emergence of classical\, statistical behaviour 
	and decoherence? In this talk\, I show (i) how standard quantum mechanics w
	ithout added randomness can explain the phenomenon of equilibration despite
	 its unitary time development\, and (ii) that an arbitrary weak interaction
	 with an environment causes decoherence in the local energy eigenbasis.
LOCATION:SCI 328\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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