Abstract
Many types of forced systems are known intuitively to undergo an irreversible behavior, in which all information about the initial conditions is eventually forgotten. These turn out to be the dynamic analogs of a system in an arbitrary initial state but connected to a static thermal reservoir and approaching equilibrium with that reservoir. The static and dynamic cases are intercombined into a single unified theory. This is based on a modified Hamiltonian and Liouville density dynamics, which explicitly includes irreversibility. Special contact transformation methods are used. The driving mechanism is generally quantal, incoherent, and of arbitrary character, not necessarily electromagnetic.
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