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What classicality? Decoherence and Bohr's classical concepts

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Authors: Maximilian Schlosshauer, Kristian Camilleri

Year

2010

Paper ID

11195

Status

Preprint

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153

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Abstract

Niels Bohr famously insisted on the indispensability of what he termed "classical concepts." In the context of the decoherence program, on the other hand, it has become fashionable to talk about the "dynamical emergence of classicality" from the quantum formalism alone. Does this mean that decoherence challenges Bohr's dictum - for example, that classical concepts do not need to be assumed but can be derived? In this paper, we'll try to shed some light down the murky waters where formalism and philosophy mingle. To begin, we'll clarify the notion of classicality in the decoherence description. We'll then discuss Bohr's and Heisenberg's takes on the quantum-classical problem and reflect on the different meanings of the terms "classicality" and "classical concepts" in the writings of Bohr and his followers. This analysis will allow us to put forward some tentative suggestions for how we may better understand the relation between decoherence-induced classicality and Bohr's classical concepts.

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