• Time evolution is the change of state brought about by the passage of time, applicable to systems with internal state (also called stateful systems). In...
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  • evolves with time. The evolution for a closed quantum system is brought about by a unitary operator, the time evolution operator. For time evolution from a...
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    Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...
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  • {e} ^{\pm \mathrm {i} H_{0,{\text{S}}}t/\hbar }} by the corresponding time-evolution operator in the definitions below. Let | ψ S ( t ) ⟩ = e − i H S t /...
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    U(t)=e^{-iHt/\hbar }} is known as the time-evolution operator, and has the crucial property that it is unitary. This time evolution is deterministic in the sense...
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  • path a given physical system will take over time. The Schrödinger equation gives the evolution over time of the wave function, the quantum-mechanical...
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  • In telecommunications, long-term evolution (LTE) is a standard for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices and data terminals, based on the...
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    Evolutionism is a term used (often derogatorily) to denote the theory of evolution. Its exact meaning has changed over time as the study of evolution...
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  • used to describe the time evolution of a system that can be modeled as being in a probabilistic combination of states at any given time, and the switching...
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  • =H(t)|\psi (t)\rangle } Equivalently, the time evolution postulate can be stated as: Postulate III The time evolution of a closed system is described by a...
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  • physics, unitarity is (or a unitary process has) the condition that the time evolution of a quantum state according to the Schrödinger equation is mathematically...
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  • }^{\alpha }} can be appropriately called the shape gradient of area. An evolution governed by C ≡ B α α {\displaystyle C\equiv B_{\alpha }^{\alpha }} is...
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    Koopman and John von Neumann: the time evolution of the Wigner function approaches, in the limit ħ → 0, the time evolution of the Koopman–von Neumann wavefunction...
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  • is to consider the time-evolution of the expected position and expected momentum, which can then be compared to the time-evolution of the ordinary position...
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    the evolution of the state variables. In physics, a dynamical system is described as a "particle or ensemble of particles whose state varies over time and...
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    paradox) is a feature of quantum-mechanical systems allowing a particle's time evolution to be slowed down by measuring it frequently enough with respect to...
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    neglect the time evolution of the system, so the above definition is re-written with τ = 0 {\displaystyle \tau =0} . This defines the equal-time correlation...
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  • covers the evolution of time-sharing systems, providing links to major early time-sharing operating systems, showing their subsequent evolution. The meaning...
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  • series, formulated by Freeman Dyson, is a perturbative expansion of the time evolution operator in the interaction picture. Each term can be represented by...
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    a central role in Hamilton's equations of motion, which govern the time evolution of a Hamiltonian dynamical system. The Poisson bracket also distinguishes...
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    Human evolution is the evolutionary process within the history of primates that led to the emergence of Homo sapiens as a distinct species of the hominid...
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  • of the problem of time is the Frozen Formalism Problem. The non-relativistic equation of quantum mechanics includes time evolution: i ℏ ∂ ∂ t ψ ( t )...
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    square the time-evolution operator in the S representation: e i ε S , {\displaystyle e^{i\varepsilon S},} and this gives the time-evolution operator between...
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  • total energy. Due to its close relation to the energy spectrum and time-evolution of a system, it is of fundamental importance in most formulations of...
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    "world tube" (the time evolution of a closed surface) that cannot be continuously deformed (shrunk) to a world line (the time evolution of a point or observer)...
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    Theistic evolution (also known as theistic evolutionism or God-guided evolution), alternatively called evolutionary creationism, is a view that God acts...
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    arbitrary quantum system, and by subdividing the time into many segments, it allows the time evolution to be expressed as a path integral. The spreading...
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  • describes the forward-time evolution of the system, and one that describes the backwards-time evolution. As of 2006, this type of time-symmetry breaking has...
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    realistic situation. The diffusion equation yields an approximation of the time evolution of the probability density function associated with the position of...
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    \mathbf {U} (t)} is called the time evolution matrix (which comprises the matrix elements of the corresponding time evolution operator U ( t ) {\displaystyle...
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