Decoherence and the Quantum-To-Classical Transition
The ultimate introduction, textbook, and reference on decoherence and the quantum-to-classical transition. This detailed but accessible text describes the concepts, formalism, interpretation, and experimental observation of decoherence and explains how de
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Maximilian Schlosshauer
DECOHERENCE
AND THE QUANTUM-TO-CLASSICAL TRANSITION
Corrected Third Printing With 69 Figures
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Dr. Maximilian Schlosshauer The University of Melbourne School of Physics Melbourne, Victoria, 3010 Australia e-mail: [email protected] Series Editors: Avshalom C. Elitzur
Rüdiger Vaas
Bar-Ilan University, Unit of Interdisciplinary Studies, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel email: [email protected]
University of Gießen, Center for Philosophy and Foundations of Science 35394 Gießen, Germany email: [email protected]
Mark P. Silverman
H. Dieter Zeh
Department of Physics, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106, USA email: [email protected]
University of Heidelberg, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Philosophenweg 19, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany email: [email protected]
Jack Tuszynski University of Alberta, Department of Physics, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1, Canada email: [email protected]
Cover figure: Image courtesy of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah (www.sci.utah.edu).
ISBN 978-3-540-35773-5
e-ISBN 978-3-540-35775-9
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-35775-9 The Frontiers Collection ISSN 1612-3018 Library of Congress Control Number: 2007930038 © 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Corrected Third Printing 2008 This work is subject to copyright.
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