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Predicting Decoherence in Discrete Models

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The general aim of this paper is to supply a method to decide whether a discrete system decoheres or not, and under what conditions decoherence occurs, with no need of appealing to computer simulations to obtain the time evolution of the reduced state. In particular, a lemma is presented as the core of the method.

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    Mario Castagnino & Sebastian Fortin

  2. IFIR, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Mario Castagnino

  3. FCEN, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Mario Castagnino & Sebastian Fortin

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Castagnino, M., Fortin, S. Predicting Decoherence in Discrete Models. Int J Theor Phys 50, 2259–2267 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10773-011-0726-x

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