Quantum Darwinism, classical reality, and the randomness of quantum jumps

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Preprint , Other literature type 01 Oct 2014Embargo end date: 01 Dec 2014 English Publisher:AIP PublishingJournal:Physics Today, volume 67, pages 44-50 (issn: 0031-9228, eissn: 1945-0699,

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Authors: Zurek, Wojciech H.;

doi: 10.1063/pt.3.2550 , 10.48550/arxiv.1412.5206

arXiv: 1412.5206

Quantum Darwinism, classical reality, and the randomness of quantum jumps

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Abstract

The core principles that underlie quantum weirdness also explain why only selected quantum states survive monitoring by the environment and, as a result, why we experience our world as classical.

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Quantum Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

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