Decoherence Versus the Idealization of Microsystems as Correlation Carriers Between Macrosystems
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
It is argued that the appropriate framework to describe a microsystem as a correlation carrier between a source and a detector is non-equilibrium statistical mechanics for the compound source-detector system. An attempt is given to elucidate how this idealized notion of microsystem might arise inside a field theoretical description of isolated macrosystems: then decoherence appears as the natural limit of this idealization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0211130,
title = {Decoherence Versus the Idealization of Microsystems as Correlation Carriers Between Macrosystems},
author = {Ludovico Lanz and Bassano Vacchini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0211130},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
9 pages, latex, no figures, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Quantum Communication & Measurement, 2000 (Capri, Italy)