IAFE   05512
INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMIA Y FISICA DEL ESPACIO
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Compatibility between environment-induced decoherence and the modal-Hamiltonian interpretation of quantum mechanics
Autor/es:
OLIMPIA LOMBARDI; SEBASTIAN FORTIN; MARIO CASTAGNINO; JUAN SEBASTIÁN ARDENGHI
Lugar:
Montreal
Reunión:
Congreso; PSA Meeting 2010; 2010
Institución organizadora:
PSA
Resumen:
Given the impressive success of environment-induced decoherence (EID), nowadays no interpretation of quantum mechanics can ignore its results. The modal-Hamiltonian interpretation (MHI) has proved to be effective for solving several interpretative problems but, since its actualization rule applies to closed systems, it seems to stand at odds of EID. The purpose of this paper is to show that this is not the case: the states einselected by the interaction with the environment according to EID (the elements of the “pointer basis”) are the eigenvectors of an actual-valued observable belonging to the preferred context according to the MHI.