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A quantum theory combining an irreversible time evolution semigroup with a time reversal operator is presented.
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Bohm, A., Wickramasekara, S. The time reversal operator for semigroup evolutions. Found Phys 27, 969–993 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02551148
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