Relative States and the Environment: Einselection, Envariance, Quantum Darwinism, and the Existential Interpretation

2007/07/19 by Wojciech H. Zurek, Zurek, Wojciech Hubert · 8 citations
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #FOS: Physical sciences #Philosophy and History of Science #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0707.2832

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Abstract

Starting with basic axioms of quantum theory I revisit "Relative State Interpretation'' set out 50 years ago by Hugh Everett.

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