Decoherence and the Appearance of a Classical World in Quantum Theory

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Springer Science & Business Media, 9 ÁÕ.¤. 2013 - 496 ˹éÒ
When we were preparing the first edition of this book, the concept of de coherence was known only to a minority of physicists. In the meantime, a wealth of contributions has appeared in the literature - important ones as well as serious misunderstandings. The phenomenon itself is now experimen tally clearly established and theoretically well understood in principle. New fields of application, discussed in the revised book, are chaos theory, informa tion theory, quantum computers, neuroscience, primordial cosmology, some aspects of black holes and strings, and others. While the first edition arose from regular discussions between the authors, thus leading to a clear" entanglement" of their otherwise quite different chap ters, the latter have thereafter evolved more or less independently. While this may broaden the book's scope as far as applications and methods are con cerned, it may also appear confusing to the reader wherever basic assumptions and intentions differ (as they do). For this reason we have rearranged the or der of the authors: they now appear in the same order as the chapters, such that those most closely related to the "early" and most ambitious concept of decoherence are listed first. The first three authors (Joos, Zeh, Kiefer) agree with one another that decoherence (in contradistinction to the Copen hagen interpretation) allows one to eliminate primary classical concepts, thus neither relying on an axiomatic concept of observables nor on a probability interpretation of the wave function in terms of classical concepts.

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Introduction
1
Superselection Rules and Symmetries
6
Decoherence Through Interaction with the Environment
41
Decoherence in Quantum Field Theory
181
Consistent Histories and Decoherence
227
Giulini
259
Open Quantum Systems
316
Stochastic Collapse Models
357
Related Concepts and Methods
383
A1 Equation of Motion of a Mass Point
394
Green Functions
402
A4 Quantum Correlations
415
A6 Galilean Symmetry
425
A7 Stochastic Processes
432
Stochastic Differential Equations
439
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