Objective properties from subjective quantum states: Environment as a witness

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 22, 2004, Pages

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

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS; POINTER STATES; QUANTUM STATES; REDUNDANT INFORMATION;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPEN SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REDUNDANCY; RELIABILITY; THEOREM PROVING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 42749108973     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.220401     Document Type: Article

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