Environment as a witness: Selective proliferation of information and emergence of objectivity in a quantum universe

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Ollivier, Harold ^a,b   Poulin, David ^a,c   Zurek, Wojciech H ^d  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL REALITY; DECOHERENCE;

COHERENT LIGHT; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY);

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 28844496731     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.042113     Document Type: Article

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