1206.5715 (Thomas Durt)

The classical-quantum limit considered from the point of view of
entanglement: a survey    [PDF]

Thomas Durt

Three paradigms commonly used in classical, pre-quantum physics to describe particles (that is: the material point, the test-particle and the diluted particle (droplet model)) can be identified as limit-cases of a quantum regime in which pairs of particles interact without getting entangled with each other. This entanglement-free regime also provides a simplified model of what is called in the decoherence approach "islands of classicality", that is, the preferred bases that would be selected through evolution by a darwinist mechanism that aims at optimizing information. The goal of our paper is to survey these results.

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