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Recently, the emergence of classical objectivity as a property of a quantum state has been explicitly derived for a small object embedded in a photonic environment in terms of a spectrum broadcast form---a specific classically correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. K. Korbicz , P. Horodecki , R. Horodecki

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'…

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

It is commonly believed that decoherence arises as a result of the entangling interaction between a quantum system and its environment, as a consequence of which the environment effectively measures the system, thus washing away its quantum…

In this Letter we investigate Quantum Darwinism and the emergence of a classical world from the quantum one in connection with the spectral properties of the environment. We use a microscopic model of quantum environment in which, by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 F. Galve , R. Zambrini , S. Maniscalco

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories, correctly predicting huge class of physical phenomena. Ironically, in spite of all its successes, there is a notorious problem: how does Nature create a ''bridge'' from fragile…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 J. K. Korbicz , P. Horodecki , R. Horodecki

Quantum Darwinism describes objectivity of quantum systems via their correlations with their environment--information that hypothetical observers can recover by measuring the environments. However, observations are done with respect to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Thao P. Le , Piotr Mironowicz , Paweł Horodecki

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

We examine the emergence and suppression of signatures of quantum Darwinism when the system of interest interacts with a complex, structured environment. We introduce an extended spin-star model where the system is coupled to $N$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Eoghan Ryan , Mauro Paternostro , Steve Campbell

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

Quantum Darwinism posits that information becomes objective whenever multiple observers indirectly probe a quantum system by each measuring a fraction of the environment. It was recently shown that objectivity of observables emerges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Paul A. Knott , Tommaso Tufarelli , Marco Piani , Gerardo Adesso

In our daily life experiences we face localized objects which are "here or there" not "here and there". The state of a cat could be "dead and alive" at the same time from a quantum mechanical point of view, which is not in agreement with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Alireza Poostindouz , Vahid Salari , Hamidreza Mohammadi

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

The emergence of classical world from underlying quantum mechanics is characterized by not only vanishing quantum correlations but also an unfolding of objectivity also known as quantum Darwinism. We show that the absence of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Bishal Kumar Das , Sourav Manna , Vaibhav Madhok

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

In this article I aim to provide an intuitive and non-technical introduction to decoherence and quantum Darwinism. Together these theories explain how our classical reality emerges from an underlying quantum mechanical description. Here I…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 P. A. Knott

Classical objectivity as a property of quantum states---a view proposed to explain the observer-independent character of our world from quantum theory, is an important step in bridging the quantum-classical gap. It was recently derived in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 J. Tuziemski , J. K. Korbicz

Quantum system interacting with environment can induce redundant encoding of the information of system into a multipartite environment, which is the essence of quantum Darwinism. At the same time, environment may scramble the initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Feng Tian , Jian Zou , Hai Li , Bin Shao

Quantum Darwinism recognizes that decoherence imprints redundant records of preferred quasi-classical pointer states on the environment. These redundant records are then accessed by observers. We show how redundancy enables and even implies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Akram Touil , Bin Yan , Wojciech H. Zurek

Effective classicality of a property of a quantum system can be defined using redundancy of its record in the environment. This allows quantum physics to approximate the situation encountered in the classical world: The information about a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. H. Zurek