Entropic time endowed in quantum correlations

Details Entropic time endowed in quantum correlations Entropic time endowed in quantum correlations

2011-11-11

arxiv.org/abs/1111.2855v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

8 pages, 2 figures, 1 bit of missing information

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A possible mechanism of time is formulated by developing an idea of time replaced by quantum correlations, with the aid of modern quantum information theory. We invent a microscopic model, where correlations of a closed system are steadily read out as internal, quantum clocks that define time via their relative phases. The model could realize emergent time evolutions which exhibit unitarity of quantum theory, while its underlying process is driven entropically. The key quantity turns out to be the amount of accessible information about the clocks recording past events. By postulating the so-called data-processing inequality (or strong subadditivity of entropy) as a fundamental, physical limitation about how information decays, we propose that conditional entropy about this past information should be constrained to be a positive constant. The proposal implies a holographic property of this conditional entropy in an analogous manner with the area law of entanglement entropy.

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