Statistical origin of classical mechanics and quantum mechanics

Journal Article · Sun Oct 31 23:00:00 EST 1993 · Physical Review Letters; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.71.2847· OSTI ID:5633860

Chu, S ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, California 92521 (United States)

The classical action for interacting strings, obtained by generalizing the time-symmetric electrodynamics of Wheeler and Feynman, is exactly additive. The additivity of the string action suggests a connection between the area of the string world sheets and entropy. We find that the action principle of classical mechanics is the condition that the total entropy of the strings be at an extremum, and the path-integral representation of the quantum density matrix element is an approximation to the partition function of the string theory.

• DOE Contract Number: FG03-86ER40271; AM03-76SF00010
• OSTI ID: 5633860
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters; (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; (United States) Vol. 71:18; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
ACTION INTEGRAL
CLASSICAL MECHANICS
COMPOSITE MODELS
DENSITY MATRIX
ELECTRODYNAMICS
ENTROPY
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL
FEYNMAN PATH INTEGRAL
FUNCTIONS
INTEGRALS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
MATRICES
MATRIX ELEMENTS
MECHANICS
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTITION FUNCTIONS
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
QUANTUM MECHANICS
QUARK MODEL
STRING MODELS
THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES