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Decoherence is the process by which quantum systems interact and become correlated with their external environments; quantum trajectories are a powerful technique by which decohering systems can be resolved into stochastic evolutions, conditioned on different possible “measurements” of the environment. By calling on recently-developed tools from quantum information theory, we can analyze simplified models of decoherence, explicitly quantifying the flow of information and randomness between the system, the environment, and potential observers.
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Brun, T.A. (2004). Decoherence and Quantum Trajectories. In: Elze, HT. (eds) Decoherence and Entropy in Complex Systems. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 633. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-40968-7_17
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