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The modern Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics describes an emergent multiverse. The goal of this paper is to provide a perspicuous characterisation of how the multiverse emerges making use of a recent account of (weak) ontological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Alexander Franklin

We study dynamics of quantum open systems, paying special attention to those aspects of their evolution which are relevant to the transition from quantum to classical. We begin with a discussion of the conditional dynamics of simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Juan Pablo Paz , Wojciech Hubert Zurek

In quantum information theory, quantum discord has been proposed as a tool to characterise the presence of "quantum correlations" between the subparts of a given system. Whether a system behaves quantum-mechanically or classically is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Jerome Martin , Amaury Micheli , Vincent Vennin

We find the conditions for one quantum system to function as a classical controller of another quantum system: the controller must be an open system and rapidly diagonalised in the basis of the controller variable that is coupled to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 G J Milburn

We provide an alternative approach to the decoherence-by-environment paradigm in the field of the quantum measurement process and the appearance of a classical world. In contrast to the decoherence approach we argue that the transition from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-29 Manfred Requardt

Decoherence is the phenomenon of non-unitary dynamics that arises as a consequence of coupling between a system and its environment. It has important harmful implications for quantum information processing, and various solutions to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Daniel A. Lidar , K. Birgitta Whaley

Conceptually different from the decoherence program, we present a novel theoretical approach to macroscopic realism and classical physics within quantum theory. It focuses on the limits of observability of quantum effects of macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Johannes Kofler , Caslav Brukner

It is well-known that decoherence is a crucial barrier in realizing various quantum information processing tasks; on the other hand, it plays a pivotal role in explaining how a quantum system's fragile state leads to the robust classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Rakesh Saini , Bikash K. Behera

Despite being created through a fundamentally quantum-mechanical process, cosmological structures have not yet revealed any sign of genuine quantum correlations. Among the obstructions to the direct detection of quantum signatures in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-30 Thomas Colas , Julien Grain , Vincent Vennin

This study was started to know mysterious classicality of nuclei. Using three particles model without external environments, it is found that decisions of respective state of three particles by decoherence are not simultaneous. Furthermore,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Takuji Ishikawa

The possible imprint of quantum decoherence, in the framework of cosmology, is here investigated. Particular attention is paid to the observational fact that entanglement could lead to the interaction of different eras of cosmic evolution.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-11 Salvatore Capozziello , Orlando Luongo

The consistent histories formalism can be used to describe histories comprised of events across many systems, times, and places, plausibly rich enough to describe our experiences of the classical world; however, many consistent history sets…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Nick Ormrod , Tein van der Lugt , Yìlè Yīng , Jarosław K. Korbicz

We study the dynamics of quantum and classical correlations in the presence of nondissipative decoherence. We discover a class of initial states for which the quantum correlations, quantified by the quantum discord, are not destroyed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Mazzola , J. Piilo , S. Maniscalco

Harmonizing classical and quantum worlds is a major challenge for modern physics. A significant portion of the scientific community supports the notion that classical mechanics is an effective theory that arises from quantum mechanics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Gabriel H. S. Aguiar , George E. A. Matsas

Decoherence of a quantum state coupled to an exterior environment is at the foundation of our understanding of the emergence of classical behavior from the quantum world, but how does it emerge in a finite closed quantum system? Here this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 O. Fialko

We review canonical experiments on systems that have pushed the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds towards much larger scales, and discuss their unique features that enable quantum coherence to survive. Because the types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Tristan Farrow , Vlatko Vedral

After a brief summary of decoherence and quantum to classical transition in cosmology we focus on the study of quantum decoherence of cosmological perturbations in inflationary universe, that does not rely on any environment. This is what…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-14 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

To discuss the quantum to classical transition in quantum cosmology, we study the decoherence factor and the peak of the Wigner function, which respectively represent the degree of decoherence and the degree to which the classical motion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Takashi Okamura

It has been experimentally demonstrated that quantum coherence can persist in macroscopic phenomena [J.R. Friedman et al.,Nature, 406 (2000) 43]. To face the challenge of this new fact, in this article QM in its standard form is assumed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Herbut

Macroscopic quantum systems (MQS) are macroscopic systems driven by quantum rather than classical mechanics, a long studied area with minimal success till recently. Harnessing the benefits of quantum mechanics on a macroscopic level would…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 Mark E. Brezinski , Maria Rupnick