Quantum State Diffusion: from Foundations to Applications

1997/01/20 by Nicolas Gisin, Gisin, Nicolas, Ian C Percival +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9701024

18 pages, TeX, 6 Figures available from the authors. To appear in "Festschrift" in honor of Abner Shimony

arxiv created 1997/01/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

Deeper insight leads to better practice. We show how the study of the foundations of quantum mechanics has led to new pictures of open systems and to a method of computation which is practical and can be used where others cannot. We illustrate the power of the new method by a series of pictures that show the emergence of classical features in a quantum world. We compare the development of quantum mechanics and of the theory of (biological) evolution.

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