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Creator:: Riedel, C. Jess, Zurek, Wojciech H., and Zwolak, Michael
Abstract:: Motivated by the advances of quantum Darwinism and recognizing the role played by redundancy in identifying the small subset of quantum states with resilience characteristic of objective classical reality, we explore the implications of redundant records for consistent histories. The consistent histories formalism is a tool for describing sequences of...
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Creator:: Zwolak, Michael, Riedel, C. Jess, and Zurek, Wojciech H.
Abstract:: Amplification was regarded, since the early days of quantum theory, as a mysterious ingredient that endows quantum microstates with macroscopic consequences, key to the “collapse of the wave packet,” and a way to avoid embarrassing problems exemplified by Schrödinger’s cat. Such a bridge between the quantum microworld and the classical...
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Creator:: Dziarmaga, Jacek, Zurek, Wojciech H., and Zwolak, Michael
Abstract:: Topological defects, such as monopoles, vortex lines or domain walls, mark locations where disparate choices of a broken-symmetry vacuum elsewhere in the system lead to irreconcilable differences(1,2). They are energetically costly (the energy density in their core reaches that of the prior symmetric vacuum) but topologically stable (the whole manifold...
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Creator:: Riedel, C. Jess, Zurek, Wojciech H., and Zwolak, Michael
Abstract:: A state selected at random from the Hilbert space of a many-body system is overwhelmingly likely to exhibit highly non-classical correlations. For these typical states, half of the environment must be measured by an observer to determine the state of a given subsystem. The objectivity of classical reality—the fact that...
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