On the Definition of Decoherence

Details On the Definition of Decoherence On the Definition of Decoherence

1993-01-07

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9301004v1

Phys.Rev. D47 (1993) 5430-5433

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

10 pages, LaTeX, SJSU/TP-93-10

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.47.5430

We examine the relationship between the decoherence of quantum-mechanical histories of a closed system (as discussed by Gell-Mann and Hartle) and environmentally-induced diagonalization of the density operator for an open system. We study a definition of decoherence which incorporates both of these ideas, and show that it leads to a consistent probabilistic interpretation of the reduced density operator.

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