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Modern Physics Letters A

LOSS OF QUANTUM COHERENCE DUE TO TOPOLOGICAL CHANGES: A TOY MODEL

George Lavrelashvili, V. A. Rubakov, Petr Tinyakov

Published Oct 1, 1988• 31 citations
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Abstract

We present a toy model for the third quantization theory of topological changes. We find that the natural choice of the “Heisenberg” state vector of the system with one large universe and an arbitrary number of small universes gives rise to the loss of quantum coherence.
DOI
10.1142/s0217732388001483

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