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Time and classical equations of motion from quantum entanglement via the Page and Wootters mechanism with generalized coherent states

Academic Article
Publication Date:
2021
abstract:
We draw a picture of physical systems that allows us to recognize what "time" is by requiring consistency with the way that time enters the fundamental laws of Physics. Elements of the picture are two non-interacting and yet entangled quantum systems, one of which acting as a clock. The setting is based on the Page and Wootters mechanism, with tools from large-N quantum approaches. Starting from an overall quantum description, we first take the classical limit of the clock only, and then of the clock and the evolving system altogether; we thus derive the Schrödinger equation in the first case, and the Hamilton equations of motion in the second. This work shows that there is not a "quantum time", possibly opposed to a "classical" one; there is only one time, and it is a manifestation of entanglement.
Iris type:
01.01 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
quantum dynamics; time; gravity; entanglement
List of contributors:
Verrucchi, Paola
Authors of the University:
VERRUCCHI PAOLA
Handle:
https://iris.cnr.it/handle/20.500.14243/399130
Published in:
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21782-4
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