Decoherence and the appearance of a classical world in quantum theory

by Joachim Kupsch, Claus Kiefer, Erich Joos et al.

2003 496 pages eng

Decoherence, a concept known only to few physicists when the first edition appeared in 1996, has since become firmly established experimentally and understood theoretically, as well as widely reported in the literature. The major consequences of decoherence are the emergence of "classicality" in gen…