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Understanding the emergence of objectivity from the quantum realm has been a long standing issue strongly related to the quantum to classical crossover. Quantum Darwinism provides an answer, interpreting objectivity as consensus between…

Quantum Darwinism describes the proliferation, in the environment, of multiple records of selected states of a quantum system. It explains how the fragility of a state of a single quantum system can lead to the classical robustness of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wojciech Hubert Zurek

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

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 present a precise characterization of the onset of classicality that combines the formalism of quantum Darwinism with the tools from quantum metrology. We show that the quantum Fisher information provides a useful metric for assessing…

We analyze a toy model that obeys environmentally induced decoherence and quantum Darwinism and satisfies the decoherent histories criterion and Leggett-Garg inequalities with respect to the pointer basis. Yet, the resulting "classical"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Irene Valladares Duque , Philipp Strasberg

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

This paper examines whether unitary evolution alone is sufficient to explain emergence of the classical world from the perspective of computability theory. Specifically, it looks at the problem of how the choice related to the measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Subhash Kak

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 report on an experimental assessment of the emergence of Quantum Darwinism (QD) from engineered open-system dynamics. We use a photonic hyperentangled source of graph states to address the effects that correlations among the elements of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Mario A. Ciampini , Giorgia Pinna , Paolo Mataloni , Mauro Paternostro

The origin of classical reality in our quantum world is a long-standing mystery. Here, we examine a nitrogen vacancy center evolving naturally in the presence of its environment to study quantum Darwinism - the proliferation of information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Thomas Unden , Daniel Louzon , Michael Zwolak , Wojciech H. Zurek , Fedor Jelezko

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 explains the emergence of classical objectivity through the redundant encoding of pointer information in environmental fragments. However, existing diagnostics rely on arbitrary thresholds or structural assumptions that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Arda Batin Tank

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 black body. In the cases of point-source and isotropic illumination, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-13 C. Jess Riedel , Wojciech H. Zurek

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

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

Can certain degrees of freedom of a closed physical system, described by a time-independent Hamiltonian, become more and more classical as they evolve from some state? This question is important because our universe seems to have done just…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-26 Kinjalk Lochan , Krishnamohan Parattu , T. Padmanabhan

We present a new formulation for the emergence of classical dynamics in a quantum world by considering a path integral approach that also incorporates continuous measurements. Our program is conceptually different from the decoherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Harsh Arora , Bishal Kumar Das , Baladitya Suri , Vaibhav Madhok

Consistent dynamics which couples classical and quantum degrees of freedom exists, provided it is stochastic. This dynamics is linear in the hybrid state, completely positive and trace preserving. One application of this is to study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Jonathan Oppenheim , Carlo Sparaciari , Barbara Šoda , Zachary Weller-Davies

How should we model an observer within quantum mechanics or quantum field theory? How can classical physics emerge from a quantum model, and why should classical probability be useful? How can we model a selective measurement entirely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-09 Brett Parker