• DOI:10.1103/RevModPhys.75.715
Corpus ID: 14759237

Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical

@article{Zurek2003DecoherenceEA,
  title={Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical},
  author={W. Zurek},
  journal={Reviews of Modern Physics},
  year={2003},
  volume={75},
  pages={715-775}
}

W. Zurek

Published 2003

Physics

Reviews of Modern Physics

as quantum engineering. In the past two decades it has become increasingly clear that many (perhaps all) of the symptoms of classicality can be induced in quantum systems by their environments. Thus decoherence is caused by the interaction in which the environment in effect monitors certain observables of the system, destroying coherence between the pointer states corresponding to their eigenvalues. This leads to environment-induced superselection or einselection, a quantum process associated… CONTINUE READING

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