Decoherence and Entropy in Complex Systems: Selected Lectures from DICE 2002

An Overview....Pages 3-5
Introduction: The Relevance of Gravity for DICE....Pages 9-14
Dynamics of Pure Shape, Relativity, and the Problem of Time....Pages 15-35
Dynamics without Time for Quantum Gravity: Covariant Hamiltonian Formalism and Hamilton-Jacobi Equation on the Space G....Pages 36-62
Some Recent Developments in the Decoherent Histories Approach to Quantum Theory....Pages 63-83
Is There an Information-Loss Problem for Black Holes?....Pages 84-95
Threshold Effects and Lorentz Symmetry....Pages 96-102
Towards a Statistical Geometrodynamics....Pages 103-116
Introduction: Quantum Theory and Beneath?....Pages 119-124
Probability of Intrinsic Time-Arrow from Information Loss....Pages 125-135
Master and Langevin Equations for Interaction with Electromagnetic and Gravitational Environments....Pages 136-150
Dissipation, Emergent Quantization, and Quantum Fluctuations....Pages 151-163
Chaotic Quantization: Maybe the Lord Plays Dice, After All?....Pages 164-179
Quantum Correlations in Classical Statistics....Pages 180-195
Quantum Mechanics and Discrete Time from “Timeless” Classical Dynamics....Pages 196-220
Introduction: Experimental and Theoretical Status of Decoherence....Pages 223-238
Decoherence and Quantum Trajectories....Pages 239-252
Decoherence in Discrete Quantum Walks....Pages 253-267
Decoherence and Quantum-State Measurement in Quantum Optics....Pages 268-286
The Structure of the Vacuum and the Photon Number....Pages 287-295
On the Possibility of Quantum Coherence in Biological Systems with Application to Quantum Computing....Pages 296-318
Introduction: From Efficient Quantum Computation to Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics....Pages 321-326
Uncertainty Domains Associatedwith Time Limited Perceptual Tasks: Fuzzy Overlaps or Quantum Entanglement?....Pages 327-340
Measurement and Information Extraction in Complex Dynamics Quantum Computation....Pages 341-348
Spin Glasses: Still Complex after All These Years?....Pages 349-361
Information Theory and Generalized Statistics....Pages 362-376
Generalization of Boltzmann Equilibration Dynamics....Pages 377-384
On the Emergence of Nonextensivity at the Edge of Quantum Chaos....Pages 385-397