QTeQ addresses the arrow of time in PRL

A key result on the emergence of thermodynamic irreversibility from the rules of quantum mechanics has been published by one of QTeQ’s members within the framework provided by the TherMiQ project.

A collaboration involving CBPF (Rio de Janeiro), UFABC (Santo Andre’), Universtaet Erlangen, and QTeQ’s member Mauro has addressed the break-down of time reversibility emerging from the quenched dynamics of a liquid-state NMR sample subjected to an external driving. The work has been published in PRL as

T. B. Batalhao, et al, Irreversibility and the arrow of time in a quenched quantum system, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 190601 (2015)

and chosen as an ‘Editors’ Suggestion’ in PRL, featured in afantastic Physics Viewpoint by Alexia Auffeves, and picked up by a set of news outlet (PhysicsWorld, Phys.Org, CNPq’s portal among others)

this is only one of the latest results of project TherMiQ, whih QteQ coordinates as part of a pan-European consortium funded by the EU FP7