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Birkhäuser Boston eBooks

Decoherence-induced Classical Properties in Infinite Quantum Systems

Robert Olkiewicz

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

In recent years decoherence has been widely discussed and accepted as a mechanism responsible for the emergence of classicality in quantum measurements and the absence in the real world of Schrödinger-cat-like states [ 2 , 6 , 7 , 11 , 12 ]. Let me start with recalling the Schrödinger cat paradox. It was a hypothetical experiment proposed by Schrödinger in 1935 which can be briefly described as follows. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

DOI
10.1007/978-0-8176-8202-6_9

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