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Emergence of classical behavior from the quantum spin

Quantum Physics 2015-06-04 v1

Abstract

Classical Hamiltonian system of a point moving on a sphere of fixed radius is shown to emerge from the constrained evolution of quantum spin. The constrained quantum evolution corresponds to an appropriate coarse-graining of the quantum states into equivalence classes, and forces the equivalence classes to evolve as single units representing the classical states. The coarse-grained quantum spin with the constrained evolution in the limit of the large spin becomes indistinguishable from the classical system.

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@article{arxiv.1202.2044,
  title  = {Emergence of classical behavior from the quantum spin},
  author = {M. Radonjic and S. Prvanovic and N. Buric},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.2044},
  year   = {2015}
}
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