Physical Origins of Time Asymmetry (Paperback)

1. Investigations of quantum decoherence A. Albrecht; 2. The emergence of time and its arrow from timelessness J. Barbour; 3. Complexity C. Bennet; 4. Unorthodox thoughts about time I. Bialynicki-Birula; 5. Temperature and time in the geometry of rotating black holes J. D. Brown and J. W. York; 6. Information, chaos and statistical physics C. Caves; 7. Time asymmetry and the flow of information T. Cover; 8. Decoherence without complexity and without an arrow of time B. Dewitt; 9. The decoherence functional in quantum mechanics F. Dowker; 10. Quantum cosmology and the arrow of time M. Gell-Mann; 11. Wormholes and time asymmetry P. Gonzalez-Diaz; 12. Statistical irreversibility: classical and quantum R. Griffiths; 13. Time asymmetry and quantum cosmology J. Halliwell; 14. The arrow of time in quantum mechanics J. Hartle; 15. My greatest mistake S. Hawking; 16. Fluctuation-dissipation in quantum fields and gravitational entropy B. Hu; 17. Time and interpretation of quantum gravity K. Kuchar; 18. The arrow of time in the Hartle-Hawking wave function R. Lafflamme; 19. Quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and the origins of time asymmetry J. Lebowitz; 20. Information flow S. Lloyd; 21. Times at early times J. Louko; 22. Time, information and quantum correlations W. Miller; 23. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem in general relativity and the cosmological constant E. Mottola; 24. Time asymmetry and the interpretation of quantum mechanics V. Mukhanov; 25. Logical time asymmetry in quantum mechanics R. Omnes; 26. Stirring up trouble P. C. W. Davies; 27. Time, quantum cosmology and Mach's principle T. Padmanabhan; 28. Entropy versus clock time D. Page; 29. Decoherence and back-reaction J. Paz; 30. Essay on time J. Perez-Mercadier; 31. Time-symmetric cosmology and definite quantum measurements L. Schulman; 32. Demonic heat engines and the second law B. Schumacher; 33. Decoherence and the arrow of time in the inflationary scenario A. Starobinsky; 34. Essay on time C. Teitelboim; 35. Time in quantum gravity W. Unruh; 36. Instability, escape and chaos in a driven asymmetric non-linear oscillator M. Velarde; 37. How come time? J. Wheeler; 38. Is time asymmetry logically prior to quantum mechanics W. Wootters; 39. Time (A-)symmetry in recollapsing quantum universe H. Zeh; 40. Toward a quantum theory of classical reality W. Zurek.