Liouville's theorem (Hamiltonian)
In
Hamiltonian mechanics,
Liouville's theorem predicts how
probability distributions evolve under time evolutions.
An interesting corollary of this theorem is that time evolutions are area/volume-preserving.
There is a quantum-mechanical version of this theorem in the Schrödinger picture.
where ρ is the
density matrix.
See also Joseph Liouville.