Interpretation and decoherence: a contribution to the debate Vasallo & Ensfeld vs Crull

SEBASTIAN FORTIN; OLIMPIA LOMBARDI

FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS

SPRINGER

Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2017 vol. 47 p. 1423 - 1427

0015-9018

The discussions "decoherence versus interpretation" revolve around whether the theory of decoherence requires interpretive considerations or not to solve the measurement problem. In general, those discussions take the theory of decoherence for granted, as if it would not involve any difficulty. Therefore, they use to focus on the "interpretation" wing: even in the case that the open system decoheres in a given basis, the whole closed system is still in a superposition and, thus, without an adequate interpretation it cannot be said that the observables defined by that basis behave classically. In the present paper we focus on the "decoherence" wing: given the conceptual challenges that the theory must face and the approaches alternative to the orthodox view, the understanding of the phenomenon of decoherence in itself still requires a great deal of interpretive work.