# The emergence of classical properties through interaction with the environment

@article{Joos1985TheEO,
title={The emergence of classical properties through interaction with the environment},
author={Erich Joos and H. Dieter Zeh},
journal={Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Physik B Condensed Matter},
year={1985},
volume={59},
pages={223-243}
}
• Published 1 June 1985
• Physics
• Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter
The dependence of macroscopic systems upon their environment is studied under the assumption that quantum theory is universally valid. In particular scattering of photons and molecules turns out to be essential even in intergalactic space in restricting the observable properties by locally destroying the corresponding phase relations. The remaining coherence determines the ‘classical’ properties of the macroscopic systems. In this way local classical properties have their origin in the nonlocal…
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