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Open Quantum Systems Decoherence

Herding Shrödinger's Supposéd Cat. How the Classical World Emerges from the Quantum Universe

arXiv
Authors: Phil Attard

Year

2018

Paper ID

7442

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Preprint

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The pointer states and preferred basis of the classical world are that of definite positions and momenta. Here it is shown that the reason for the absence of superposition states is the limited resolution with which observations or measurements are made.

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  • The pointer states and preferred basis of the classical world are that of definite positions and momenta.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1809.08757 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08757 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08757

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