Decoherence and the Transition from Quantum to Classical — Revisited

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Wojciech H. Zurek · Los Alamos National Security (United States)

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The environment surrounding a quantum system can, in effect, monitor some of the systems observables. As a result, the eigenstates of these observables continuously decohere and can behave like classical states.

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Quantum Mechanics and Applications Quantum Information and Cryptography Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

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Published in: Birkhäuser Basel eBooks

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-7808-0_1

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