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We study quantum Darwinism -- the redundant recording of information about a decohering system by its environment -- in zero-temperature quantum Brownian motion. An initially nonlocal quantum state leaves a record whose redundancy increases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-09 Robin Blume-Kohout , Wojciech H. Zurek

"How much information about a system $\mathcal{S}$ can one extract from a fragment $\mathcal{F}$ of the environment $\mathcal{E}$ that decohered it?" is the central question of Quantum Darwinism. To date, most answers relied on the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Akram Touil , Bin Yan , Davide Girolami , Sebastian Deffner , Wojciech H. Zurek

The roles of decoherence and environment-induced superselection in the emergence of the classical from the quantum substrate are described. The stability of correlations between the einselected quantum pointer states and the environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Wojciech H. Zurek

Quantum Darwinism (QD) proposes that classical objectivity emerges from the broadcast of information about a microscopic degree of freedom into multiple fractions of a many-body environment. Such a broadcast of information is in sharp…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Benoît Ferté , Xiangyu Cao

Quantum Darwinism offers an explanation for the emergence of classical objective features -- those we are used to at macroscopic scales -- from quantum properties at the microscopic level. The interaction of a quantum system with its…

A state selected at random from the Hilbert space of a many-body system is overwhelmingly likely to exhibit highly non-classical correlations. For these typical states, half of the environment must be measured by an observer to determine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 C. Jess Riedel , Wojciech H. Zurek , Michael Zwolak

Quantum Darwinism recognizes that we - the observers - acquire our information about the "systems of interest" indirectly from their imprints on the environment. Here, we show that information about a system can be acquired from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-09 Michael Zwolak , H. T. Quan , Wojciech H. Zurek

The purpose of the present study is to derive the pointer states of a macroscopic system interacting with its environment, under the general assumptions, i.e., without assuming any form of the interaction Hamiltonian. The lowest order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-18 Kentaro Urasaki

We characterize monitored quantum dynamics in a solvable model exhibiting a phase transition between a measurement apparatus and a scrambler. We show that approximate decoherent histories emerge in both phases with respect to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Benoît Ferté , Davide Farci , Xiangyu Cao

We study quantum Darwinism, the redundant recording of information about the preferred states of a decohering system by its environment, for an object illuminated by a blackbody. We calculate the quantum mutual information between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 C. Jess Riedel , Wojciech H. Zurek

In the context of quantum objectivity, a standard way to quantify the classicality of a state is via the mutual information between a system and different fractions of its environment. Many of the tools developed in the relevant literature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Diana A. Chisholm , Luca Innocenti , G. Massimo Palma

We study the spreading of a quantum-mechanical wavepacket in a one-dimensional tight-binding model with a noisy potential, and analyze the emergence of classical diffusion from the quantum dynamics due to decoherence. We consider a finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ariel Amir , Yoav Lahini , Hagai B. Perets

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

We examine the emergence of objectivity via quantum Darwinism through the use of a collision model, i.e. where the dynamics is modeled through sequences of unitary interactions between the system and the individual constituents of the…

The quantum measurement problem, the unresolved conflict between the unitary evolution of the wave function and the postulate of wave function collapse, remains the most profound conceptual challenge in quantum foundations. While…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Eyad I. B Hamid

We critically examine the role that correlations established between a system and fragments of its environment play in characterising the ensuing dynamics. We employ a class of dephasing models where the state of the initial environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Nina Megier , Andrea Smirne , Steve Campbell , Bassano Vacchini

The theory of Quantum Darwinism aims to explain how our objective classical reality arises from the quantum world, by analysing the distribution of information about a quantum system that is accessible to multiple observers, who probe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-07 Eugenia Colafranceschi , Ludovico Lami , Gerardo Adesso , Tommaso Tufarelli

Quantum Darwinism builds on decoherence theory to explain the emergence of classical behavior in a fundamentally quantum universe. Within this framework we prove two crucial insights about the emergence of classical phenomenology, centered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Akram Touil , Fabio Anza , Sebastian Deffner , James P. Crutchfield

Spectrum Broadcast Structures are a new and fresh concept in the quantum-to-classical transition, introduced recently in the context of decoherence and the appearance of objective features in quantum mechanics. These are specific quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 J. Tuziemski , J. K. Korbicz

The emergence of classicality is fundamentally driven by the interaction between a quantum system and its environment. Foundational open-system approaches, notably the Caldeira-Leggett model, successfully captured how these interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Arthur C. R. Dutra , Roberto D. Baldijão , Marcelo Terra Cunha