Physical Review A · 1992 · 85 citations · 9 references
Natural SciencesPhysicsAtomic PhysicsQuantum MechanicsThermodynamicsCold Atom PhysicsEntropyQuantum DynamicsQuantum Information TheoryStatistical MechanicsStatistical ThermodynamicsEntropy In Quantum InformationInformation EntropyNon-equilibrium Many-body DynamicsNon-equilibrium Quantum DynamicsNonequilibrium Quantum Statistical MechanicsQuantum EntropyTime-dependent Density Functional TheoryTime-dependent Perturbation Theory
Using the concept of information entropy, it is shown that it is impossible to increase the phase-space density of atoms with time-dependent potentials or other time-dependent terms in the Hamiltonian, even if the motion is nonclassical.
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