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Quantum Darwinism explains the emergence of a classical description of objects in terms of the creation of many redundant registers in an environment containing their classical information. This amplification phenomenon, where only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Gian Luca Giorgi , Fernando Galve , Roberta Zambrini

Quantum Darwinism is a paradigm to understand how classically objective reality emerges from within a fundamentally quantum universe. Despite the growing attention that this field of research as been enjoying, it is currently not known what…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Emery Doucet , Sebastian Deffner

The relationship between classical and quantum theory is of central importance to the philosophy of physics, and any interpretation of quantum mechanics has to clarify it. Our discussion of this relationship is partly historical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. P. Landsman

Quantum Darwinism proposes that the proliferation of redundant information plays a major role in the emergence of objectivity out of the quantum world. Is this kind of objectivity necessarily classical? We show that if one takes Spekkens'…

Core quantum postulates including the superposition principle and the unitarity of evolutions are natural and strikingly simple. I show that -- when supplemented with a limited version of predictability (captured in the textbook accounts by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Wojciech Hubert Zurek

The idea that decoherence in a unitary-only quantum theory suffices to explain emergence of classical phenomena has been shown in the peer-reviewed literature to be seriously flawed due to circularity. However, claims continue to be made…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-17 R. E. Kastner

Quantum Darwinism attempts to explain the emergence of objective reality of the state of a quantum system in terms of redundant information about the system acquired by independent non interacting fragments of the environment. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Nadia Milazzo , Salvatore Lorenzo , Mauro Paternostro , G. Massimo Palma

Emergence of the classical world from the quantum substrate of our Universe is a long-standing conundrum. I describe three insights into the transition from quantum to classical that are based on the recognition of the role of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Wojciech Hubert Zurek

How the objective everyday world emerges from the underlying quantum behaviour of its microscopic constituents is an open question at the heart of the foundations of quantum mechanics. Quantum Darwinism and spectrum broadcast structure are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 Thao P. Le , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

A simple toy model is proposed that would allow conscious perceptions to be either classical (perceptions of objects without large quantum uncertainties or variances) or highly quantum (e.g., having large variances in the perceived position…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Don N. Page

Tracing flows of information in our quantum Universe explains why we see the world as classical.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-18 Wojciech H. Zurek

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

Quantum Darwinism explains how tenets of classical reality, such as objectivity and repeatability, emerge within a quantum universe. As a mathematical framework, Quantum Darwinism also provides guiding principles that determine what…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Emery Doucet , Sebastian Deffner

According to the so-called Quantum Darwinist approach, the emergence of "classical islands" from a quantum background is assumed to obey a (selection) principle of maximal information. We illustrate this idea by considering the coupling of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 Thomas Durt

Quantum Darwinism provides an information-theoretic framework for the emergence of the objective, classical world from the quantum substrate. The key to this emergence is the proliferation of redundant information throughout the environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 Michael Zwolak , H. T. Quan , Wojciech H. Zurek

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 M. Radonjic , S. Prvanovic , N. Buric

Quantum Darwinism is a compelling theory that describes the quantum-to classical transition as the emergence of objectivity of quantum systems. Spectrum broadcast structure and strong quantum Darwinism are two extensions of this theory with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Thao P. Le , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

We establish bounds on quantum correlations in many-body systems. They reveal what sort of information about a quantum system can be simultaneously recorded in different parts of its environment. Specifically, independent agents who monitor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 D. Girolami , A. Touil , B. Yan , S. Deffner , W. H. Zurek

We study the behavior of Quantum Darwinism (Zurek, [8]) within the iterative, random unitary operations qubit-model of pure decoherence (Novotny et al, [6]). We conclude that Quantum Darwinism, which describes the quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-09 Nenad Balaneskovic

The relationship between classical and quantum mechanics is usually understood via the limit $\hbar \rightarrow 0$. This is the underlying idea behind the quantization of classical objects. The apparent incompatibility of general relativity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-15 J. -B. Bru , W. de Siqueira Pedra