Breakdown and regeneration of time reversal symmetry in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics

Abstract A review and nontechnical exposition of recent studies on the relevance of time reversal, on its spontaneous breakdowns, and on its possible resurgence as a weaker symmetry that still anticommutes with time evolution are given.

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