Słabe łamanie ergodyczności vs. determinizm

• Authors: Andrzej Fuliński

Title variants

EN

Weak ergodicity breaking vs. determinism of physical processes

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

All physical processes are deterministic de iure. Physicists speak about different types of determinism of physical processes, depending on the degree with which their course can be anticipated. Usually, the course of ergodic processes can be predicted with less certainty than the non-ergodic ones, the latter being integrable. Recent measurements of motions of single particles in composite systems, especially in living biological cells, show that such motions are, in most cases, breaking the Boltzmann’s ergodic hypothesis. On the other hand, their trajectories are random, i.e., one cannot know a priori where the particle will be even in near future. This leads to conclusion that many existing in nature processes are nonergodic but not integrable, therefore predictable only in the mean, representing still other type of determinism.

Keywords

PL

Boltzmann hypothesis; ergodic theory; deterministic chaos; Brownian motion; anomalous diffusion; single-particle trajectory

• Publisher: Copernicus Center Press
• Journal: Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 59
• Pages: 83-100

Dates

published

2015-12-19

Contributors

author

Andrzej Fuliński