Ehrenfest theorem and information theory
- 1 September 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 26 (3), 1209-1217
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.26.1209
Abstract
An explicit connection via the information-theory formalism is made between Ehrenfest's theorem and entropy conservation that yields a useful prescription for describing the time evolution of observables.Keywords
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