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Homework Statement https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/62834965/neutron_interferometer.png Consider a neutron interferometer (NI), such as the Mach-Zehnder interferometer in the figure. We send in a beam of neutrons. We assume that the flux of neutrons is so low (neutrons can be very slow)...

(inspired partially by this blog post: http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/classical-mechanics-versus-thermodynamics-part-1/ To my understanding, the thermodynamic configuration space has a nice symplectic structure. For example, using the language of classical mechanics, starting...