INVESTIGADORES
LOMBARDI olimpia Iris
artículos
Título:
Self-induced decoherence and the classical limit of quantum mechanics
Autor/es:
MARIO CASTAGNINO; OLIMPIA LOMBARDI
Revista:
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Editorial:
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
Referencias:
Lugar: Chicago; Año: 2005 vol. 72 p. 764 - 776
ISSN:
0031-8248
Resumen:
In this paper we argue that the emergence of the classical world from the underlying quantum reality involves two elements: self-induced decoherence and macroscopicity. Self-induced decoherence does not require the openness of the system and its interaction with the environment: a single closed system can decohere when its Hamiltonian has continuous spectrum. We show that, if the system is macroscopic enough, after selfinduced decoherence it can be described as an ensemble of classical distributions weighted by their corresponding probabilities. We also argue that classicality is an emergent property that arises when the behavior of the system is described from an observational perspective.