Wednesday, June 13, 2012

1009.4614 (Casey Blood)

Quantum mechanics, by itself, implies perception of a classical world    [PDF]

Casey Blood
Several versions of reality can simultaneously exist in the states of quantum mechanics, but we perceive only one classical version. The question is whether the mathematics of quantum mechanics, by itself, implies we perceive only one classical version. Zurek has used a method involving the environment, redundancy, decoherence and quantum Darwinism to show that quantum mechanics does indeed imply this result, but the argument is quite complex. Here we give a simpler method based on linearity.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4614

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