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New perspectives on Kac ring models

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It is proposed that the type of model first suggested by Kac in connection with problems of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics can be generalized and modified so that it can be directly applied to cellular automata. It is further noted that these same models can be used to illuminate some basic questions in the interpretation of quantum mechanics.

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The content of this paper shows more clearly than any words how much physics owes to the insight, vigor, and brilliance of Mark Kac. It cannot show the personal debt this author owes to him. Throughout his life he showed compassion, kindness, and consideration. Few days go by that I do not think of him, his work, his humanity.

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Dresden, M. New perspectives on Kac ring models. J Stat Phys 46, 829–842 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01011144

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